Siddhārtha Gautama
c. 563 BCE – 483 BCElived
Lumbinī, Shakya republic
- Buddhism
Argued that suffering has a cause and therefore an end, and that the self one is trying to protect from it does not exist in the way it seems to. Dates are contested by roughly a century.
Known for
- the four noble truths
- anattā (non-self)
- dependent origination
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.