Who is grearter the jesus or the Buddha?

Answer 1

Buddhism does not consider such questions, however, from a Buddhist standpoint, the final teachings of the Buddha stand above all other teachings, since they deal directly with the question of how to alleviate the four sufferings of birth sickness, old age and death, and how to get off the karmic wheel of rebirth.

From that standpoint, the teachings of Jesus, which teach one to rely on a third party to provide salvation from the four sufferings would be considered provisional teachings, but Buddhism considers all teachings to ultimately be Buddhist in nature, in the sense that all teachings eventually lead to enlightenment, even when they seem to lead away from it (the concept of circularity in teachings), and the difference would be how direct or effective each teaching is.

It is important to remember that the ultimate aim of the Buddhist is not the same as the ultimate aim of the Christian - the Buddhist aims to achieve enlightenment, which means to see reality for what it really is, with no illusions, in order to eradicate one's karma and achieve a state where one will not be reborn again, while the Christian's ultimate aim is to praise God and through his intermediary, Jesus, achieve rebirth in perfect world.

Also it is important to note that Buddhism is at least 500 years or more older than Christianity, and as such, the idea of mention of Jesus or a comparison to him would be from a Buddhist standpoint, impossible, and since the people of the Middle East had not been exposed to Buddhist ideas at the time of Jesus (although this is debatable, since the Essenes were monastic, and that is an eastern influence and not Jewish in any way) there would be no way of Jesus making such a comparison either.