"Gautama Buddha or (Pali) Gotama Buddha (also the Historical Buddha; Siddhārtha Gautama or (Pali) Siddhattha Gotama;[note 5] Shakyamuni or (Pali) Sakkamuni; and (the) Buddha) was an ascetic and a religious teacher of South Asia who lived in the latter half of the first millennium BCE.[note 6] He is the founder of Buddhism and revered by Buddhists as an enlightened being whose teachings sought a path to freedom from ignorance, craving, rebirth and suffering. Born in Lumbini in what is today Nepal in the clan of Shakya, he spent the majority of his adult life in what is today India, attaining enlightment in Bodhgaya, preaching his first sermon on the Four Noble Truths in Sarnath, where also the Buddhist sangha or community came to life, and attaining death in the form of Nirvana in Kushinagar." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.04.2022)
