184: jesus and buddha Jun 10, 2015

Some religious figures were not born with the names many refer to them as. The Buddha's given name was Siddhartha Gautama; and the word Buddha comes from a Sanskrit word literally meaning, ‘enlightened,’ which is the past participle of 'budh' meaning ‘to know.’ Additionally, Jesus of Nazareth was not named Jesus Christ. 'Christ' comes ultimately from Greek. The Modern English, 'Christ' has a complicated derivation; it comes from the Old English word 'Crīst', from Latin, 'Christus', from Greek Khristos, nounal use of an adjective meaning ‘anointed,’ which in turn derives from 'khriein' meaning ‘anoint'.