Gautama
pronunciation
How to pronounce Gautama in British English:
UK [ˈɡɑutəmə]
How to pronounce Gautama in American English:
US [ˈɡɔtəmə, ˈɡaʊ-]
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- Noun:
- founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)
Word Origin
- Gautama
- surname of the Buddha, from Sanskrit Gotamah, properly a patronymic, literally "descendant of the greatest ox," from superlative of gauh "ox, bull, cow."
Example
- 1. Gautama was a contemporary of mahavira .
- 2. Vajrayana thus attempts to recapture the enlightenment experience of the gautama buddha .
- 3. Could the flash of wisdom that came over siddhartha gautama ?
- 4. Gautama siddartha , who became the buddha , urged his followers to isolate themselves from worldly life .
- 5. One afternoon I walked past the shwedagon pagoda an ancient gilded temple that rises three hundred and twenty-six feet above rangoon and is said to contain eight hairs of the gautama buddha .