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No, he just sat under a tree and decided to become enlightened. (After decades of trying to do it the hardway - fasting, meditation, mortifying the flesh, hedonism, etc.)

[OutInTheColdAgain]

okay I got what you mean about Buddhism. You explained it very well. Nice short and simple. He sat under a tree one day and was enlightened. Everyone else who follows Buddhism is reaching for enlightenment. As far as religion goes it doesn't seem that much more bizarre than religions who accept angles descending to earth and talking to us. Actually Buddhism makes more sense to me as a religion than Scientology, no offense intended. Scientology still seems to me to be psychology disguised as religion. I would have to learn more about it to dismiss my initial reaction.

[Doctor Stochastic]

That's a Pippala tree according Tibetan tradition. Had he sat under an apple tree, he might have acquired gravitas rather than enlightment.