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Bud⋅dha

  [boo-duh, bood-uh]
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1. Also called Butsu, Gautama, Gautama Buddha. (Prince Siddhāttha or Siddhartha) 566?–c480 b.c., Indian religious leader: founder of Buddhism.
2. any of a series of teachers in Buddhism, of whom Gautama was the last, who bring enlightenment and wisdom.
3. (sometimes lowercase) Buddhism. a person who has attained full prajna, or enlightenment; Arhat.
Origin:
1675–85; < Skt: awakened (budh- awaken, notice, understand + -ta ptp. suffix)
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Bud·dha 1   (bōō'də, bŏŏd'ə)   
Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism. He began preaching after achieving supreme enlightenment at the age of 35.
Bud·dha 2   (bōō'də, bŏŏd'ə)   
n.  
  1. One who has achieved a state of perfect spiritual enlightenment in accordance with the teachings of Buddha.
  2. A representation or likeness of Buddha.

[Sanskrit buddha-, enlightened, past participle of bodhati, he awakes; see bheudh- in Indo-European roots.]
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Buddha

Bud"dha\, n. [Skr. buddha wise, sage, fr. budh to know.] The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.
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Buddha 
1681, from Pali, lit. "awakened, enlightened," pp. of budh "to awake, know, perceive," related to Skt. bodhati "is awake, observes, understands." Title given by his adherents to the man who taught this path, Siddhartha Gautama, also known to them as Sakyamuni "Sage of the Sakyas" (his family clan), who lived in northern India 5c. B.C.E. Buddhist, Buddhism first recorded 1801.
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