In Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is any person who is on the path towards Buddhahood, which is the rank or condition of an “awaken one”, a Buddha. The Buddha, also named Siddhārtha Gautama or Buddha Shakyamuni, was a spiritual teacher and religious leader who lived in India around the 5th- 4th Century BC. He is regarded as the founder of Buddhism and worshipped by most Buddhist schools as the Enlightened One who has transcended Karma and escaped the cycle of birth and rebirth. His teachings are based on his insight into the duḥkha, usually translated as “suffering”, and the end of dukkha, the state called Nibbāna or Nirvana, which is the ultimate goal of the Buddhist path, the state of non-suffering, as it also marks the end of the Samsara, the indefinite state of rebirth and death into a mundane existence.
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