# Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha

- Id: `buddha`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/buddha/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `d6c5ffc65ece852aa93a9395855cd8c256d0dc0a298d2436ee4b8f67d6cce133`

## Summary

The teacher at the origin of Buddhism, the Buddha examines suffering, its causes, its cessation, and the disciplined path that leads beyond it.

## Overview

The historical Buddha's dates are disputed; the cutoff is an explicitly approximate reconstruction.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "5th c. BCE (debated)",
    "era": "Classical Antiquity",
    "distance": "about 2,475 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "buddhism",
    "name": "Buddhism",
    "detail": "Buddhism",
    "labels": [
        "Buddhism"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": -368,
    "display": "368 BCE",
    "reason": "The historical Buddha's dates are disputed; the cutoff is an explicitly approximate reconstruction."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 6,
    "passages": 3512,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "pli"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Lumbini",
        "period": "traditional birth",
        "description": "Traditional birthplace preserved in Buddhist pilgrimage geography.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Kapilavastu region",
        "period": "early life",
        "description": "Traditional setting of youth; archaeological identification is debated.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Bodh Gaya",
        "period": "awakening tradition",
        "description": "Traditional site of awakening.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Sarnath",
        "period": "first teaching tradition",
        "description": "Traditional site of the first discourse.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Rajgir",
        "period": "teaching years",
        "description": "Major setting in early Buddhist textual traditions.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Shravasti",
        "period": "teaching years",
        "description": "Recurring residence in early discourse collections.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Kushinagar",
        "period": "death tradition",
        "description": "Traditional site of final passing.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Nalanda",
        "period": "teaching itinerary tradition",
        "description": "A place on the transmitted teaching itinerary, distinct from the later monastic university.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://tourism.gov.in/sites/default/files/2021-10/Budhism%20Kushinagar%20Brochure_Print%20PDF.pdf"
    },
    {
        "name": "Kaushambi",
        "period": "teaching years",
        "description": "Recurring location in the early Buddhist itinerary tradition.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://tourism.gov.in/sites/default/files/2021-10/Budhism%20Kushinagar%20Brochure_Print%20PDF.pdf"
    },
    {
        "name": "Vaishali",
        "period": "final journey tradition",
        "description": "Associated with the final teaching journey in Buddhist tradition.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://tourism.gov.in/sites/default/files/2021-10/Budhism%20Kushinagar%20Brochure_Print%20PDF.pdf"
    }
]
```