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Who Was the Buddha?

By Alexander Wynne

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aspects of the myth must be stripped away

An invitation to imagine a more austere figure than the prince of myth.

The Form(s) of Buddhism Buddhism The Buddha

Published in 2019.

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    year=2019,
    month=dec,
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    url={https://aeon.co/essays/was-the-buddha-an-awakened-prince-or-a-humble-itinerant}
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