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What does Buddha mean?
January 14, 1959.
What is the meaning of Buddha? It means the awakened one. The opposite term is dormant, which means without divine consciousness. Whoever has this divine consciousness, he must have a form. That may be a divine light or the form of a human being. Whose form is seen among many, he is Buddha. This is mentioned in Buddhist Philosophy in the Pali language.
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The Pāli canon that the Buddhist tradition of Ceylon and South East Asia presents us with appears to be basically the Tipiṭaka that the compilers of the commentaries had before them in the fifth and sixth centuries CE. The Pāli tradition itself records that the texts of the canon at first existed only orally and were committed to writing at a relatively late date, some time during the first century BCE. On the basis of this tradition – and scholars have generally looked upon it quite favourably
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― The Buddhist Path to Awakening
― The Buddhist Path to Awakening
