What is a bodhisattva?
What is nirvana?
A person who has reached enlightenment but has chosen to continue the cycle of samsara in a new form with each life to teach others how to reach nirvana.
Moksha involves returning to God.
How is nirvana different to moksha?
Extinguishing wants, attachments to things and suffering to reach liberation from the cycle of samsara.
How do Buddhist beliefs about reaching nirvana compare to Abrahamic beliefs about the soul returning to God?
They do not! There is generally not a belief in a soul or a reconnection with God within Buddhist beliefs.
He taught others before his death, at which point, he reached nirvana and was free from the cycle of samsara.
What did he do once he reached enlightenment?
How did Buddha reach nirvana?
By following the margas of action (the Eightfold Path) and knowledge (the Four Noble Truths).
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