What are prophets of Buddhism?

Answer 1

AnswerProphets are messengers believed to be appointed by God. As Buddhism has NO gods there can not be any prophets.

There have been some significant teachers in the history of Buddhism the most significant is the Buddha Siddharta Gautama. See Who is the Buddha for further information.

Answer 2

A prophet is a guy sent from God, and Buddhists don't believe in God. So there isn't one, basically. Siddharta Gautama was just a normal guy who had the idea for Buddhism; he wasn't a prophet in the same sense as, say, Jesus, or Muhammed (PBUH).

Answer 3

Buddhism is a non-prophet organization.
The famous figures in Buddhism fter the Buddha are too numerous to list. They would include all the enlightened teachers and scholars who have clarified concepts and the leaders of all the various sects.

The MOST important persona of the Buddhist religion would be Siddhartha Guatama, or Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. It is from his years of determination and exploration that he found "enlightenment" for the first time, sitting under a Bodhi Tree. Many other important people associated with the Buddhist religion were the various teachers of the Buddha himself.

Buddhism does not believe in prophets!

For figures it depends on what type of Buddhism you are talking about!

Generally speaking;

Gautama Buddha(the Buddha)

Guru rinpoche(Tibetan Buddhist guru and founder of Tibetan Buddhism)

Dalai lama (Tibetan Buddhist guru)

Bodhidharma(founder of Zen Buddhism and chinese sholin material art)

Hotei/Laughing Buddha(said to be the futher Buddha, has a large belly and is commonly confused with teh Gautama Buddha alot in the west)

Buddha medicine (Tibetan Buddhist Bodhisattva)

Kyan Yine (Buddhist Bodhisattva)

Queen Maya(Gautama Buddha's Maya mother)

King Asoka (Ancient Indian Buddhist king responsible for spreading of Buddhism across India and sending Missionaries out of India spreading Buddhism, separating Buddhism from Hinduism)

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Answer 4

In Buddhism, there isn't anyone who is regarded as prophet. A prophet is a person who, by definition, comes to proclaim the will of god. Buddhism does not see a need for god in its philosophy or practice instead leaving it to each person to gain enlightenment through their own efforts. There weren't prophets in the western sense, the writers were more philosophers than anything else. The closest one who could come to a prophet is the holy man who visited him after his birth and declared that he would be either a great king or a great spiritual leader

You could call Buddhism a non-prophet organization.
Gautama Buddha.

Answer 5

There were several major followers of Buddhism originally, but Buddha is considered the prophet or "chosen one" of Buddhism.

Answer:

The concept of "prophet" is foreign to Buddhist belief. A prophet is a person sent by a deity to foretell some significant birth or event. Buddhism has no deity to send such a messenger. So t here are no Buddhist prophets.

The closest you might get would be the dream his mother had when he was conceived (a white elephant with six white tusks entered her right side) or the prediction that the hermit seer Asita made after his birth that the child would either become a great king or a great holy man. Neither of these are traditional "prophet" material.

Answer 6

Prophets are those sent by a deity to send advance warning that "something" is coming.

Buddhism has no deities, therefor no one to send prophets, therefore no prophets. Even if something were coming it isn't the nature of Buddhist practice or belief to be overly troubled about the future, or the past for that matter.

Buddhism is a non-prophet organization.

Answer 7

The major prophet is Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)