# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alara-kalama
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:57:29.406Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alara-kalama"
name: "Alara Kalama"
slug: "alara-kalama"
description: "Alara Kalama, was a hermit and a teacher of meditation. He was a śramaṇa born in Brahmin-family (Buddhacarita) and, according to Buddhist scriptures, the first teacher of Gautama Buddha."
tagline: "Teacher of yogic meditation and second teacher of Gautama Buddha"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Borobudur_-_Lalitavistara_-_075_W%2C_The_Bodhisattva_meets_with_Rudraka_Ramaputra_(11249433576).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.39129333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "阿羅邏伽藍"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ཨ་ར་ཏ་ཀ་ལ་མ།"
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    title: "Āḷāra Kālāma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arada_Kamala"
    title: "Arada Kamala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arada_Kalama"
    title: "Arada Kalama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE"
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    title: "Āḷāra Kālāma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アーラーラ・カーラーマ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "알라라 칼라마"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alara_Kalama"
    title: "Alara Kalama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Алара Калама"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "A-la-la Ca-lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump