Word: gotama
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...Origin of Buddhism.- Relation to antecedent Vedism and Brahmanism.- Relation to contemporaneous sects and philosophies (Sankhya, Vedanta, etc.).- Practical aspect and common purpose of all Indian speculation.- The personality of Gotama...
...Buddha Legend.- Buddha as a sun-myth.- No "Life of Gotama." - "The Light of Asia."- Historical basis of the tradition.- The Bodhisat. Gotama's birth and youth.- His names.- Retirement from the world.- Attainment of illumination.- Life-work.- Death...
Later Buddhism united the primitive belief with ontology derived from Brahmanical schools. Buddha was no longer the man Gotama, but the eternal and self - existent. With this expansion of the Buddha came the corresponding expansion of his mission of deliverance, carried on through many Buddhas - to - be. Mystical Buddhism strove to reach conceptions beyond sensual pleasure. It was the aim of the manifestations of the Eternal to make men partakers of the Buddha - nature. The goal of the true believer of communion, might be realized on earth by help of scripture and holy places, or spiritually in any world from...