Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. 'the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic. After leading a life of mendicancy, asceticism, and meditation, he attained nirvana at Bodh Gaya in what is now India. The Buddha then wandered through the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain, teaching and building a monastic order. Buddhist tradition holds he died in Kushinagar and reached parinirvana ("final release from conditioned existence").
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| Full name at birth | Siddhārtha Gautama
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| Claim to fame | regarded as the Supreme Buddha of our age
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| Date of birth | 8 April 563
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| Place of birth | Lumbini, today in Nepal
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| Date of death | 483
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| Place of death | Kushinagar, Malla Republic (according to Buddhist tradition)
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