BUDDHA MEANS ONE WHO IS ‘AWAKE’

"Buddha" means "one who is awake." He was an ordinary person, named Siddhartha Gautama, whose profound insights inspired the world.
Buddha is not a name, but a title. It is a Sanskrit word that means "a person who is awake."
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What a buddha is awake to is the true nature of reality.
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Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who once resided in South Asia.
Buddhism teaches that we all live in a fog of illusions created by mistaken perceptions and "impurities" - hate, greed, ignorance.
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A buddha is one who is freed from the fog. It is said that when a buddha dies he or she is not reborn but passes into the peace of Nirvana, which is not a "heaven" but a transformed state of existence.