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Buddha

“The Awakened One”: the name given to the founder of Buddhism, who lived in India more than two and a half thousand years ago.

Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

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• Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
• A Confession, Leo Tolstoy

  Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, also called Shakyamuni, which Tolstoy spells Sakya Muni. Legend says he grew up a prince kept from the sight of old age, sickness and death.

• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha, Tara Brach

  Siddhartha Gautama, the Indian spiritual teacher who lived around the fifth century BCE and founded Buddhism.

• The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, Thich Nhat Hanh

  Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, who lived in India around the fifth century BC. The word means “the awakened one”.

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Patanjali, commentary by Swami Satchidananda

  Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, who lived in India around the fifth century BC.

• Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom, Rick Hanson, Richard Mendius

  Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, who lived in India more than two thousand years ago. The word "Buddha" means "the awakened one".

• The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche

  The founder of Buddhism. Nietzsche recalls the legend that for centuries after the Buddha died, people still showed his shadow in a cave.

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