Is it correct to refer to "Buddha" without "the" Wikipedia uses &quot;the Buddha&quot; to refer to the founder while a book uses &quot;Buddha&quot; without the definite article.

from &quot;Meetings with Remarkable People By Osho&quot;
Is it correct to refer to &quot;Buddha&quot; without &quot;the&quot;? If yes, when should I use which?
I think &quot;the&quot; Buddha is more normal and more formal.
Without &quot;the&quot; sounds to me more casual -- or possibly slightly English-as-a-second-language, as several languages don't use articles.
If you think of the word &quot;Buddha&quot; as being a title like &quot;Teacher&quot;, well in formal English you'd usually include the article and say something like, &quot;The Teacher said, ...&quot;.
It's not incorrect, perhaps a bit familiar, to say something like, &quot;Teacher said, ...&quot;.
Also &quot;Buddha&quot; without an article would be right if &quot;Buddha&quot; were a proper noun, i.e. a name -- but I think it's more like a title or a common noun (the specific Buddha who we usually talk about is Gautama Buddha).