EASTERN INFLUENCES

Eastern Influences

Eastern Influences

Buddhism: Siddhartha Gautama

Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual educator in the north to the east district of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. In most Buddhist customs, he is considered as the Supreme Buddha of our age, "Buddha" significance "awakened one. Various collections of teachings attributed to Gautama were passed down by oral tradition, and first pledged to composing about 400 years later. Early Western scholarship tended to accept the biography of the Buddha offered in the Buddhist scriptures as mostly chronicled, but actually "scholars are progressively reluctant to make unqualified assertions about the chronicled facts of the Buddha's ...