Buddhist Practices - The Buddha

The Buddha

• Tathāgata — meaning "Thus Come One" and "Thus Gone One" simultaneously, the epithet the Buddha uses most often to refer to himself; occasionally it is used as a general designation for a person who has reached the highest attainment
• Buddha's Birthday
• The Four Sights — observations that affected Prince Siddhartha deeply and made him realize the sufferings of all beings, and compelled him to begin his spiritual journey
  • An old man
  • A sick man
  • A dead man
  • An ascetic
• Qualities of the Buddha
  • Abandonment of all defilements (kilesa — principally greed, hatred and delusion) together with their residual impressions (vasana)
    • All defilements have been abandoned totally — all defilements have been destroyed with none remaining
    • All defilements have been abandoned completely — each defilement has been destroyed at the root, without residue
    • All defilements have been abandoned finally — no defilement can ever arise again in the future
  • Acquisition of all virtues
    • Great Wisdom (Mahapaññā)
      • Extensiveness of range — understanding the totality of existent phenomena
      • Profundity of view — understanding the precise mode of existence of each phenomenon
    • Great Compassion (Maha-karuṇā)
• Physical characteristics of the Buddha
• Buddha footprint
• Buddha statue (Buddharupa)
• Iconography of Gautama Buddha in Laos and Thailand
• Depictions of Gautama Buddha in film
• Miracles of Gautama Buddha
• List of places where Gautama Buddha stayed
• Colours of Buddha's aura (prabashvara)
  • Sapphire blue (nila)
  • Golden yellow (pita)
  • Crimson (lohita)
  • White (odata)
  • Scarlet (manjesta)
• Family of Gautama Buddha
  • Śuddhodana (father)
  • Māyā (mother)
  • Yasodharā (wife)
  • Rāhula (son)
  • Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī (foster mother)
  • Nanda (half-brother)
  • Ānanda (cousin)
  • Anuruddha (cousin)
  • Devadatta (cousin)
• Teachers of the Bodhisatta Gotama
  • Āḷāra Kālāma — taught Gautama the dimension of nothingness
  • Uddaka Rāmaputta — taught Gautama the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception
• Gautama Buddha in world religions
  • Gautama Buddha in Hinduism