A History of the Buddha and Buddhist Sacred Texts
A Buddha is seen as one who becomes awakened to the true nature of reality, and awakened from ingrained greed, hatred and delusion. The Enlightened One The Buddha lived and taught in north-east India in the 5th century B.C.E., dying in his eightieth year. The Theravāda tradition (literally “School of the Elders”, one of the[…]