Word: gautama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hindu imports spin on and on in the catalogue of current U.S. spiritual movements. So, too, do the offshoots of Buddhism, which began in India as a reform movement within Hinduism in the 6th century B.C. Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened One who founded the Buddhist family of religions, de-emphasized the Hindu gods; some schools of Buddhism-Zen, for instance-still reflect a kind of agnosticism. But the basic spiritual focus in the many forms of Buddhism is the attainment of nirvana, an ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated, and compassion...