Siddhārtha Gautama, often called Gautama Buddha, or simply Buddha (563-483 BC, dates estimated), was a South Asian sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. The precise details of his life are not known for certain. Some sources place his lifetime as 480-400 BC.
With the invention of the time-viewer, historians learned that Buddha was a party-animal.[1] This knowledge did not shake Buddhists from their faith. The revelation that the Jews really were God's chosen people did that.
Buddhists of the Middle Kingdom practiced the traditional form of the faith, which regarded the Buddha as a peaceful man. The Turks of Babylonia, however, believed that he had been a man of war and called him Sword Buddha.[2] Although mostly associated with the Babylonian Turks, this doctrine found some adherents in other countries, including the poor, backward, warlike Moabites, who had been fighting a millennia-long feud against the Philistinians. There were rumours that among the Philistinians there were Sword Buddha adherents who fought just as fanatically against the Moabites as vice versa.[3]
See also
Ho Tei, a historical figure of the 9th and 10th centuries CE, known as the "Laughing Buddha".
