According to Buddha, how does one achieve immortality or amata or deathlessness? Was Buddha immortal? How die?

Answer 1

Buddha and most yogis hold the view that immortality is a matter of association. If you associate with any component that basically is perishable then you will die. However if you transcend the basic conditioning of one's consciousness and through [possibly] meditation, define a higher self and a higher function then based on that self and function you will live on.

So I guess in the most mundane explanation, if you associate with an idea that continues you exist then you will exist as an ancillary body to that idea.

Answer 2

i don't think Buddha attained physical immortality where the body never ages as he died or as they put it attained nirvana or salvation at the age of 80 at kushinagara in the year 486BC
unless there is another Buddha other than Gautama Buddha who claimed to have gotten immortality then i guess i have never heard of anyone as such.all i know is that Buddha was enlightened and that is what they say when he come to know the truth about life which he attained seated under a pipal tree now known as the bodhi tree.

Answer 3

You achieve immortality (perhaps you mean Atma?) by Enlightenment. You realise the Oneness of the Self with all of life, and as life is eternal so are you. The Buddha was a Self-Realised immortal and therefore was eternal, however his mortal body was temporal (in time and space) and died. It is said his body died from eating some bad food.

Answer 4

Buddha died perhaps from food poisoning.

Immortality is not necessarily a tenet of Buddhism. However, those who believe in it think two things: that the soul is reincarnated until it reaches enlightenment, which a state of non-attachment to all things material. Once you achieve enlightenment, after death one enters Nirvana, which is variously described as nothingness or the end of suffering. Literally, Nirvana means "extingushing."