Gautama Buddha or Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha ( Sanskrit: स ि द ् ध ा र ् थ ग ौ तम ब ु द ् ध ; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama ) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent,

The most well-known example is Angulimala in the Theravadan Pali canon who had killed 999 people and then attempted to kill his own mother and the Buddha, but under the influence of the Buddha he repented and entered the monkhood.

For practicing Buddhists, references to " dharma " ( dhamma in Pali ) particularly as " the Dharma ", generally means the teachings of the Buddha, commonly known throughout the East as Buddha-Dharma.

Faith ( Pali: Saddhā, Sanskrit: Śraddhā ) is an important constituent element of the teachings of Gautama Buddha — in both the Theravada and the Mahayana traditions.

The teachings of Buddha were originally recorded in the language Pali and the word saddhā is generally translated as " faith ".

The Buddhists have always maintained that during the time of Buddha and Mahavira ( who, according to the Pali canon, were contemporaries ), Jainism was already an ancient, deeply entrenched faith and culture there.

The Pali Canon contains the earliest written detailed discussion of nirvana and the concept has thus become most associated with the teaching of the historical Buddha.

This ultimate state is described by the Buddha as " deathlessness " ( Pali: amata or amāravati ).

According to discourses found in both the Theravada school's Pali canon, and some of the Āgamas in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Noble Eightfold Path was rediscovered by Gautama Buddha during his quest for enlightenment.

The Five Precepts ( Pali: pañca-sīlāni ; ) constitute the basic Buddhist code of ethics, undertaken by lay followers ( Upāsaka and Upāsikā ) of the Buddha Gautama in the Theravada as well as in Mahayana traditions.

In the Pali Canon, the Buddha describes the Five Precepts as gifts toward oneself and others:

In Pali Canon the Buddha rejected a suggestion by Devadatta to impose vegetarianism on the Sangha.

According to the Pali Texts, the Buddha ate meat long as the animal was not killed specifically for Him.

* Sutta ( Pali ; Sanskrit: sūtra ) refers to a " discourse " in the Pali canon attributed to the Buddha or one of his disciples.

" During the time of Gautama Buddha the city was called Ayojjhā in Pali and Ayodhyā in Sanskrit, though this city was said to be on the River Ganges ( Pheṇāpiṇḍūpama Sutta-SN 22. 95 ).

In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, it is claimed that the historical Shakyamuni Buddha taught tantra, but that since these are ' secret ' teachings, confined to the guru / disciple relationship, they were generally written down long after the Buddha's other teachings, the Pali Canon and the Mahayana sutras.

According to early Buddhist scripture, the Buddha refused to answer certain questions regarding metaphysical propositions, known as the fourteen unanswerable questions ( the Pali Canon only gives ten ).

This would lead to faith ( Pali: saddha ), one key power ( Pali: bala ) that one should generate within oneself for the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.

The Sanskrit and Pali word sīla is an ethical compass within self and relationships, rather than what is associated with the English word " morality " ( i. e., obedience, a sense of obligation, and external constraint-all of which are quite foreign to the concept of sīla as taught by Gautama the Buddha ).

Bodhi ( Sanskrit: ब ो ध ि; and Pali ) in Buddhism is the understanding possessed by a Buddha regarding the nature of things.

Texts like the Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta and Anuradha Sutta, show Buddha as insisting that the truths about dukkha and the way to end dukkha are the only ones he is teaching as far as attaining the ultimate goal of nirvana is concerned.

The Buddha is reported to have allowed women into the sangha only with great reluctance, predicting that the move would lead to Buddhism's collapse after 500 years, rather than the 1, 000 years it would have enjoyed otherwise ( this prophecy occurs only once in the Canon and is the only prophecy involving time in the Canon, leading some to suspect that it is a late addition.

The Buddhist suttas also mention that samādhi practitioners may develop supernormal powers ( abhijñā, also see siddhis ) and list several that the Buddha developed, but warn that these should not be allowed to distract the practitioner from the larger goal of complete freedom from suffering.

The King of Chiang Mai considered the incident to be a strong divine directive and allowed the Buddha statue to remain in Lampang, where it remained for the next 32 years in an exclusively built temple.

Later, the Buddha allowed the ordination of women, but forbade ordination to these other types of people.

Only visitors who purchase an offering for the Buddha are allowed to see the relic, in order to leave the offering there.

The Buddha allowed the lion to shrink down to the size of the marmoset.

Together they went to see the Buddha, who allowed their size to meet in the middle.

On Vesak Day, the annual holiday celebrating the birth and enlightenment of the Buddha, devotees donate money to the temple and in exchange are allowed to place gold leaf onto a small statue of the Buddha.

The Buddha allowed the monastics to follow all of these except the last if they so wished, but refused to make them compulsory.

However, the Buddha also lightly reprimanded Sariputta on occasion when he did not fully explain the Dhamma to a prince, or when he allowed a group of novice monks to become too loud.

( เข ้ าถ ึ งเม ื่ อ: ๒๓ พฤศจ ิ กายน ๒๕๕๔ ).</ ref > He based this on the fact that the Buddha allowed senior female monks ( the Bhikkhuni Sangha ) to give monkhood to women.

The Three Jewels of Buddhism are the Buddha, meaning the mind's perfection of enlightenment, the Dharma, meaning the teachings and the methods of the Buddha, and the Sangha, meaning those awakened beings who provide guidance and support to followers of the Buddha.

Faith in Buddhism centers on the understanding that the Buddha is an Awakened being, on his superior role as teacher, in the truth of his Dharma ( spiritual teachings ), and in his Sangha ( community of spiritually developed followers ).

Faith in Buddhism can be summarised as faith in the Three Jewels: the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

* The Three Jewels, namely Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha

Often the number three referring to the Triple Gem of Buddhism, the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

The Sangha or community of ordained Buddhist bhikkhus ( similar to monks ) and original bhikkhunis ( similar to nuns ) was founded by Gautama Buddha during his lifetime over 2500 years ago.

In Buddhism, the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha each are described as having certain characteristics.

The Sangha of monks and the Sangha of nuns were originally established by Gautama Buddha in the 5th century BC in order to provide a means for those who wish to practice the Dhamma full time, in a direct and highly disciplined way, free from the restrictions and responsibilities of the household life.

The Sangha also fulfils the function of preserving the Buddha ’ s original teachings and of providing spiritual support for the Buddhist lay-community.

Although always maintaining that women were just as capable of attaining enlightenment as men, the canonical texts depict the Buddha as being reluctant to permit women to join the Sangha.

According to the scriptures the reason the Buddha himself gave was that the admission of women would weaken the Sangha and shorten its lifetime, and he laid down strict rules subordinating nuns to monks ( The Eight Garudhammas ).

Buddhist clergy are often referred to as the Sangha and consists of the order of monks ( bhikshus ) and nuns ( bhikshunis ) founded by Gautama Buddha during the 5th century BC, as well as lay priests in the modern era and ngagpas of the Tibetan tradition.

On Vesākha day, devout Buddhists and followers alike are expected and requested to assemble in their various temples before dawn for the ceremonial, and honorable, hoisting of the Buddhist flag and the singing of hymns in praise of the holy triple gem: The Buddha, The Dharma ( his teachings ), and The Sangha ( his disciples ).

Many tantric texts qualify the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha thus: " The Guru is Buddha, the Guru is Dharma, the Guru is also Sangha " to reflect their importance for the disciple.

Emperor Ashoka the Great erected the capital to mark the spot where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma and where the Buddhist Sangha was founded.

Jetari taught the young man three things: 1 ) taking refuge in the Three Jewels of Buddha, 2 ) Dharma and Sangha and 3 ) bodhichitta, described as the mind-oriented aspiration towards enlightenment with the intent of benefiting all sentient beings.