Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE)
Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama in Sanskrit or Siddhāttha Gotama in Pali, Shakyamuni (i.e. “Sage of the Shakyas”), a monk amendicant, sage, and Teacher on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the northeastern part of ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.
Accounts of his life, discourses and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers.
Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.
