What is the relationship between Dharma and Siddhartha Gautama and the Buddha?

The Buddha is Siddhartha Gautama, Siddhartha Gautama and Dharma all belong to Buddhism. Shakyamuni is the founder of Buddhism, Dharma through the Mahayana Buddhism release, Gautama Buddha is Dharma's teacher, the two sides are master and disciple relationship.

Buddha before he did not become a monk, for the Prince of the King of Joy, Buddha's common name: Chodamo Siddhartha, Chodamo is the Buddha's common family name, Siddhartha is the Buddha's common name. Here many people confused, because the surname of the Buddha, it is easy for people to link to the Dharma master, so it will be confused relationship

Shakyamuni (Buddha), the founder of Buddhism, was a Sakya from the ancient Central Indian state of Kaviravai, who existed in the middle of the first millennium BCE. At this time the prosperity of the commodity trade contributed to the rise of the Kshatriya class, the traditional Brahminical authority which constituted a hindrance was weakened, and the intellectual world was alive with Shastric thinking, including Buddhism.

And the Dharma master, the full name of the Dharma name Bodhidharma, he is Shakyamuni Buddha's heart of the 28th generation of transmitters, the Buddha's Zen lineage to his disciple Daksha, Daksha for the first generation of Zen in India ancestor, then passed on for 28 generations in India.

Buddhist Dharma is the 28th generation of Buddhist Zen ancestor, and then went to China to promote the teachings of Zen into China, also known as the first ancestor of Chinese Zen (Dharma master came to China is equivalent to the era of the North and South Dynasties in China).

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Shakyamuni's life story

Shakyamuni's life did not attract the attention of the early compilers of the Tripitaka, who merely recorded the words of the Guru in as much detail as they could; more elaborate narratives and more legendary stories were elaborated only later.

What is relatively reliable about the Buddha's image is a basic outline. He grew up in affluence, married and had children, then became a monk at about age 29; the meditations and austerities he learned failed to solve his problems; and he attained the Buddha's self-realization at about age 35. For the rest of his years, he traveled throughout the Ganges Valley, speaking and teaching to all classes.

His renunciation of exoteric ideas, which corrected some of the deviations of the civilization of the age and consolidated the class interests of the Kshatriyas, led to his being honored as a saint of the Sakya race.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Bodhidharma