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Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie is the first novel of Thomas Mann, published in 1901, following four generations of a wealthy Lübeck merchant family to extinction; it won Mann the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Buddh International Circuit

Buddh International Circuit (बुद्ध अन्तरराष्ट्रीय परिपथ), a 5.125 km Hermann Tilke racetrack in Greater Noida, India; hosted the Formula One Indian Grand Prix 2011-2013, all won by Sebastian Vettel, and MotoGP's first Indian round in 2023.

Buddha Bar compilation albums

Buddha Bar compilation albums: chillout/lounge series from the Paris Buddha-Bar of Raymond Visan and Claude Challe, first issued 1999 on George V Records, two discs (Dinner and Party), mixed by Challe, Ravin, Visan, and Popat.

Buddha from Sarnath

The Buddha from Sarnath refers to Gupta-period Buddha images carved in pale Chunar sandstone at Sarnath near Varanasi from the 4th to 6th century CE.

Buddha Gotama

Buddha Gotama (गौतम बुद्ध) was the teacher born into the Śākya clan near the present India–Nepal border whose awakening and 45 years of teaching founded Buddhism, traditionally living to age 80.

Buddha in a Traffic Jam

Buddha in a Traffic Jam is a 2016 Indian political thriller written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri, starring Arunoday Singh, Anupam Kher, Mahie Gill, and Pallavi Joshi. Released 13 May 2016, it flopped with about ₹28.75 lakh nett in India and drew largely negative reviews.

Buddha in art

Buddha in art: the anthropomorphic Buddha image, first created under the Kushans at Gandhara and Mathura in the 1st-3rd centuries CE, replacing earlier aniconic symbols; its mudras, lakshanas, Gupta synthesis, and transmission across Asia.

Oct 3, 2026

Buddha Mountain (观音山)

Buddha Mountain (观音山, Guan Yin Shan) is a 2010 Chinese drama by director Li Yu, starring Fan Bingbing, Sylvia Chang, Chen Bolin, and Fei Long. It premiered at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival, winning Best Artistic Contribution and Best Actress, and was released in mainland China in March 2011.

Buddha of Mendut

The Buddha of Mendut is a monumental 9th-century andesite statue in Candi Mendut, Central Java, Indonesia, seated in the teaching gesture and flanked by two bodhisattvas.

Buddha of Sarnath

The Buddha of Sarnath is a seated Gupta-period image of Gautama Buddha preaching his first sermon, carved in Chunar sandstone at Sarnath near Varanasi in the 5th century CE.

Buddha-nature

Buddha-nature, or tathāgatagarbha, is the Mahāyāna Buddhist doctrine that all sentient beings possess the nature or potential of a fully awakened buddha, taught in sutras such as the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra.

Buddha-Rakkhita

Buddha-Rakkhita (Pali Buddharakkhita) is a Sri Lankan monk traditionally credited with the Jinālaṅkāra, a 250-verse Pali poem on the Buddha's life, supposedly written about 426 B.C.

Buddha's Birthday

Buddha's Birthday, also known as Buddha Purnima or Hanamatsuri, is the festival commemorating the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, on dates that vary by country.

Buddha's hand

Buddha's hand, also called fingered citron or bushukan, is a fragrant citron variety whose fruit splits into finger-like segments, grown for its form and intense lemon-like fragrance.

Sep 23, 2026

Buddhacharita

Buddhacharita (बुद्धचरित), meaning "Acts of the Buddha," is a Sanskrit epic poem on the Buddha's life by the monk and poet Ashvaghosha, written in India in the first or second century CE.

Buddhadatta

Buddhadatta (बुद्धदत्त) was a South Indian Theravada monk-scholar of the 5th to 6th centuries CE, best known as the author of the Abhidhammāvatāra, the first written handbook of Theravāda Abhidhamma.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (বুদ্ধদেব ভট্টাচার্য)

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, also known as Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, was an Indian communist politician of the CPI(M) who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011.

Buddhadeva

Buddhadeva (बुद्धदेव) was a fifth-century Buddhist elder, one of three monks at whose request the Jātakaṭṭhakathā, the Pali commentary on the Jātaka birth stories, was composed.

Buddhadeva Bose

Buddhadeva Bose (বুদ্ধদেব বসু; 1908–1974) was a Bengali poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist of the post-Tagore modernist generation who wrote over a hundred books and edited the influential poetry journal Kavita.

Buddhaghosa

Buddhaghosa was a fifth-century Indian scholar-monk who worked at the Mahavihara in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, writing the Pali commentaries on the Tipitaka and the Visuddhimagga.

Buddhaguhya

Buddhaguhya (बुद्धगुह्य) was an eighth-century Indian Buddhist master, regarded in Tibetan tradition as a key figure in transmitting Mahayana tantra to Tibet, best known for his commentary on the Mahavairocana Tantra.

Buddhahood

Buddhahood, the samyaksambuddha state (Pali sammāsambuddha), is the state of a fully awakened buddha who has realized the Dharma completely and teaches the path to others.

Buddhamitra (佛陀密多)

Buddhamitra (佛陀密多, also 伏馱蜜多), meaning "Friend of the Buddha", is the ninth patriarch in the Chan and Zen lists of Indian patriarchs, disciple of Buddhanandi and teacher of Pārśva.

Buddhamitta

Buddhamitta (बुद्धमित्त) was a fifth-century Theravada monk and colleague of Buddhaghosa, named in the Jātaka colophon as one of three requesters of the Jātakaṭṭhakathā, and credited with requesting the Majjhimanikāya Commentary.

Buddhanandi (佛陀难提)

Buddhanandi (佛陀难提) is the figure whom Chan and Zen transmission records name as the eighth Indian patriarch, between Vasumitra and Buddhamitra, though scholars doubt the lineage's historicity.

Buddhapālita

Buddhapālita (Sangs rgyas bskyang, c. 470–540) was an Indian Madhyamaka Buddhist philosopher, author of the earliest known commentary on Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, preserved in Tibetan. His prasaṅga-only method, criticized by Bhāviveka and defended by Candrakīrti, founded the Prāsaṅgika tradition.