Buddha (title)

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Buddha (Sanskrit=बुद्ध) means the enlightened one or the one who achieve Buddhahood,^[1] as fully comprehended the Four Noble Truths.^[2] Contemporarily, this word is often used to refer Siddharta Gautama, the teacher and the founder of Buddhism (or "the Buddha of the present age"). In other use, the term is applied to those who have reached enlightenment.

Buddhavamsa named 25 Buddhas including Gautama in section three until twenty seven, while the twenty eight section lists three Buddhas who lived before the time of Dipankara Buddha.^[3]

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