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    The Meaning of Buddhism Fundamental principles of the Theravada doctrine By Bhikkhu U Thittila February 1958 Issue Share Save The teaching founded by the Buddha is known, in English, as...

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    The Meaning of Buddhism

    Fundamental principles of the Theravada doctrine

    By Bhikkhu U Thittila

    February 1958 Issue

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    The teaching founded by the Buddha is known, in English, as Buddhism. It may be asked, who is the Buddha? A Buddha is one who has attained Bodhi; and by Bodhi is meant wisdom, an ideal state of intellectual and ethical perfection which can be achieved by man through purely human means. The term Buddha literally means enlightened one, a knower. Buddhists believe that a Buddha is born in each aeon of time, and our Buddha—the sage Gotama who attained enlightenment under the bo tree at Buddh Gaya in India—was the seventh in the succession
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