Which is the more common reading of 仏陀 - ぶつだ or ブッダ?


I realize that 仏陀 is probably more common in writing where the reading is
ambiguous anyway, but I am curious to know: do people tend to read it as ぶつだ
or ブッダ? For what it's worth, my IME recognizes both, and the one time I did
hear it in speech it was ブッダ.




Aeon.

Before you learn which is better, you have to know that _furigara_ is not the
same as pronunciation. Certainly _furigana_ shows us how to read its _kanji_ ,
but we sometimes don't write small _hiragana_ or _katakana_ because we didn't
have such sounds before Kamakura Period. _Hiragana_ and _katakana_ are not so
precise phonograms.

The answer is Buddha, ブッダ. I've never seen the form, ぶつだ, but it may be a sort
of old way to write or miswritten.

Furthermore, most of people do not call him Buddha, but _Hotoke(sama)_ or
_Oshaka(sama)_ instead. _Sama_ is a suffix like title which used to call
someone else out of respect.




Aeon.

Before you learn which is better, you have to know that _furigara_ is not the
same as pronunciation. Certainly _furigana_ shows us how to read its _kanji_ ,
but we sometimes don't write small _hiragana_ or _katakana_ because we didn't
have such sounds before Kamakura Period. _Hiragana_ and _katakana_ are not so
precise phonograms.

The answer is Buddha, ブッダ. I've never seen the form, ぶつだ, but it may be a sort
of old way to write or miswritten.

Furthermore, most of people do not call him Buddha, but _Hotoke(sama)_ or
_Oshaka(sama)_ instead. _Sama_ is a suffix like title which used to call
someone else out of respect.

