Buddha vs Abraham - What's the difference?
buddha | abraham |
Shakyamuni Buddha, Nepalese spiritual and philosophical teacher and founder of Buddhism ; Siddhartha Gautama.
Any of the other Buddhas named in Buddhist scriptures.
An enlightened or awakened sentient being.
A statue or image of any Buddha.
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i) A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch who preached monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac and the Arab patriarch Ishmael.
* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 17:5 :
* 1980 , Werner Keller, The Bible as History (tr. by William Neil), chapter 7, page 93:
* 1961 , (Kurt Vonnegut), Mother Night , Dell (1975), page 28:
The 14th sura (chapter) of the Quran
As a noun buddha
is an enlightened human being.As a proper noun abraham is
abraham.buddha
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(Gautama Buddha)Alternative forms
* buddha (senses 2 and 3 only)Noun
(en noun)- I ''love'' the Buddha in your living room – where did you get it?
Derived terms
* Buddhahood * Buddhism * BuddhistExternal links
* (Gautama Buddha) English words with optional capitalisation ----abraham
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(wikipedia Abraham)Proper noun
(s)- Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but they name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
- As one would expect of caravan people around 1900 B.C., the caravan people depicted in the Khnum-hotpe grave had donkeys, whereas the Bible says that Abraham and his people, who according to the traditional interpretation are supposed to have lived at the same period, already possessed camels.
- "Lincoln wasn't a Jew, was he?" he said. "I'm sure not," I said. - - - "The name Abraham is very suspicious, to say the least," said Goebbels. "I'm sure his parents didn't realize that it was a Jewish name," I said. "They must have just liked the sound of it. They were simple frontier people. If they'd known the name was Jewish, I'm sure they would have called him something more American, like George or Stanley or Fred."