A heat map in the Digital Pali Dictionary shows that there are roughly 14,000 occurences of bhagavant in the suttas compared with 3,000 occurrences of buddha (when used in the titular meaning). I.e., people referred to the Buddha as bhagavant much more than as buddha. Also, I haven’t looked at a h…

[image] stephen: Hi, not sure what a heat map is in Buddhism It’s DPD’s Frequency feature where you can see how often a particular term occurs across the tipiṭaka and in the commentaries. (DPD calls it a heat map…generic term in data analytics that maps # of occurrences to various colors.) …

Frequency of "Buddha" vs "Bhagavant" in the suttas

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Adutiya January 21, 2024, 4:13pm 2

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