What are facts about the man who started Buddhism?

Answer 1

1. He is dead.

2. He did not rise again.

3. He did not ever raise anyone from the dead.

4. He did not tell anyone they would positively go to Heaven. Or how.

Answer:

Siddhartha Gautama, the man who was the Buddha, is difficult to outline in 5 facts:

1. He was born a prince, became a beggar and eventually a teacher
2. He discounted the idea of gods being needed to achieve release from pain and suffering
3. His identification of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path allows everyone to escape the cycle of death and rebirth
4. He lived 500 year before the birth of the Christian Jesus
5. By the start of the Common Era his teachings were known as far west as the Middle East and around the Mediterranean Sea and as far east as CHina andwere incorporated into religions in those areas

Answer 2

Siddhartha went under a banyan tree and was enlightened