What is gautamala's main religion?

Answer 1

If u r talking about Gautam Buddha...his main religion before starting his 'Middle Path'was Jainism.He had taken Diksha-ascetism in the path of 23rd Tithankara(Ford maker),Lord Parshwanath.AS described by Buddha himself in Mazzim Nikaya,-"i wandered about naked, licked food from hands which i begged from the house which had not prepared it for me specially,plucked out my hair,fasted without water,i kept a sweeper in my hands and sweeped the place before i sat down"mazzim nikay.The above said conditions of ascetism r found only in Jainism and not in Hinduism.. and it becomes obvious that he followed the path of Lord Parshwanath coz during the time Gautama had not become Buddha and was an ascetic Lord Mahavira was still meditating towards his enlightenment....it was at a later stage that Gautam Buddha felt that enlightenment could even be gained through the Middle-path,as he neither found happiness in both the extreme ends,1 of material enjoyment which leads to sufferings and other of extreme asceticism..In Mazzim-Nikay Buddha even mentions to his deciples The Nirvana of Niggantha nattaputta [Mahavira] at Pava.