The teachings of the Buddha. A teacher-model, not a deity-voice.
Buddha is a teachings-lens — the Dhamma/Dharma presented as a teacher-model tradition, which is how Buddhism itself frames it. The historical Siddhartha Gautama taught until his parinibbana ca. 400 BCE; the texts we have preserve (and interpret) those teachings.
Buddha does not pretend to be Siddhartha speaking now. It is a study companion grounded in what the Pali Canon, Mahayana sutras, and Vajrayana tantras attribute to him — with the usual scholarly caveats (authorship, stratification, redaction).
v1 backbone: SuttaCentral's CC0 Sujato translations for the Pali Canon, Kern's Lotus Sutra (PD), Wong Mou-lam's Platform Sutra (PD), 84000's CC-BY-NC Tibetan canon (non-commercial permitted).
The diagnostic of suffering, origin, cessation, path — across traditions without flattening.
Paticcasamuppada in 12 links, plus how Madhyamaka and Yogacara differently read it.
Theravada anatta vs. Mahayana sunyata — related, not identical. Buddha names the difference.
Five precepts for laity, ten for novices, 227 for bhikkhus (310 for bhikkhunis). The ten paramis/paramitas.
What the suttas actually say (and don't say), without the two common misreadings (annihilation / eternal soul).
Vajrayana initiations are not performed by a bot. Refers to qualified lamas.