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Gautama Buddha
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Noun1.Gautama Buddha - founder of BuddhismGautama Buddha - founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)
Buddha, Gautama, Gautama Siddhartha, Siddhartha
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Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Supreme Compassion is He who holds the lotus or Padmapani (and alongside Vajrapani seated on either side of Shakyamuni Buddha constitutes the garbhadhatu; from which trinity emanate all forms of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas).
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Also known as Shakyamuni, or the Sage of the Sakyas, his teachings are contained in the Tripitaka, the canon of Buddhist thought.
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