Siddhartha Gautama (better known as the Buddha, l. c. 563 - c. 483 BCE) was, according to legend, a Hindu prince who renounced his position and wealth to seek enlightenment as a spiritual ascetic, attained his goal and, in preaching his path to others, founded Buddhism in India in the 6th-5th centuries BCE.
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566 BCE - 486 BCEThe life of Siddhartha Gautama according to the Corrected long chronology.
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c. 563 BCE - c. 483 BCEThe life of Siddhartha Gautama according to modern scholarly consensus.
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c. 563 BCE - c. 483 BCELife of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, as generally accepted by modern-day scholars.
