FilmsMain article: Depictions of Gautama Buddha in filmLittle Buddha, a 1994 film by Bernardo BertolucciPrem Sanyas, a 1925 silent film, directed by Franz Osten and Himansu RaiTelevisionBuddha (TV ser ...
Main article: Gautama Buddha in world religionsSome Hindus regard Gautama as the 9th avatar of Vishnu.The Buddha is also regarded as a prophet by the Ahmadiyya Muslims and a Manifestation of God in th ...
Some scholars believe that some portions of the Pali Canon and the ?gamas contain the actual substance of the historical teachings (and possibly even the words) of the Buddha. Some scholars believe t ...
Recollection of nine virtues attributed to the Buddha is a common Buddhist devotional practice. The nine virtues are also among the 40 Buddhist meditation subjects. The nine virtues of the Buddha appe ...
Main article: Physical characteristics of the BuddhaGandhāran depiction of the Buddha from Hadda, Afghanistan; Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonAn extensive and colorful physical description of the ...
After his death, Buddha's cremation relics were divided amongst 8 royal families and his disciples; centuries later they would be enshrined by King Ashoka into 84,000 stupas. Many super natural legen ...
Conception and birthPurported birthplace of Gautama Buddha in Lumbini, a holy shrine also for many non-Buddhists .Most scholars regard Kapilavastu, present-day Nepal, to be the birthplace of the Buddh ...
Biographical sourcesThe sources for the life of Siddhārtha Gautama are a variety of different, and sometimes conflicting, traditional biographies. These include the Buddhacarita, Lalitavistara Sūtra ...
The times of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain: most historians in the early 20th century dated his lifetime as circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE, but more recent opinion dates his death to between 486 a ...
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. Born in the Shakya republic in the Himalayan foothills, Gautama ...
