the name of a legendaryHindu sage and of a body of scientificphilosophical- religious truth, written about 600 b.c. The Dharma rose up in Asia and its doctrines were spread to hundreds of millions o f people by Siddhartha Gautama Buddha. The word means knowingness, or lookingness. See also Buddhism in this glossary.—SHSBC Binder 33 Approved Glossary