Buddha - Washington, DC
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N 38° 53.305 W 077° 01.640
18S E 324166 N 4306347
Located in the Freer Gallery in Washington, DC
Waymark Code: WMRYPZ
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 08/23/2016
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The Freer Gallery is part of the Smithsonian Institution and open daily 10:30 to 5.
The Gallery sign indicates that this marble sculpture is from the 8th century. This particular Buddha may be Shakyamuni.
Wikipedia (
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"Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic... and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the eastern part of Ancient India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.
Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the srama?a movement[5] common in his region. He later taught throughout other regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala.
Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism. He is recognized by Buddhists as an enlightened or divine teacher who attained full Buddhahood, and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering. Accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later."