person
Buddha
the Buddha
also: Siddhartha Gautama, Будда
The founder of Buddhism, whose teaching that the soul passes through many lives and forms (transmigration) is invoked here for comic mock-solemnity.
Reading notes
- A Few Thoughts on the Soul §3 the Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, whose teaching on the soul's passage through many lives and forms is burlesqued here as the pseudo-authority behind the narrator's mock confession.