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Siddhartha Gautama,[e] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit.&#;'the awakened one'),[4][f][g] was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia,[h] during the 6th or 5th century BCE[c] and founded Buddhism.
According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal,[b] to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic.[i] After leading a life of mendicancy, asceticism, and meditation, he attained nirvana at Bodh Gaya in what is now India.
The Buddha then wandered through the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain, teaching and building a monastic order. Buddhist tradition holds he died in Kushinagar and reached parinirvana ("final release from conditioned existence").[j
