[GunningForTheBuddha]

The standard adult response of “No you’re not!”

[cloudmountain]

The Buddha was Sidharth Gautama, an Indian from northern India, they believe. He REPEATEDLY told those people that he was NOT a god, demi-god or saint. He was JUST a man.
He isn't supposed to be worshiped because he wasn't "God." He's only supposed to be "revered."
But, the folks IGNORED his wishes and many wrongfully worshiped him. Statues of him ABOUND throughout the world.

The Chinese portray him as a fat, bald China man. He was, without doubt, a VERY skinny, aesthete Indian with long, long (never cut) hair: the complete opposite.
Go figure.

The Indians also rejected an alphabet for all their past because they refused to put their beautiful words of God into print and therefore defile them.

Then, they were conquered by Alexander the Great and he IMPOSED the Greek alphabet on them and, by the first century A.D. they developed their own alphabet. Since then all their holy, sacred works have been written down.

The works aren't exact since, before then, all tradition was oral and we KNOW that oral traditions can't hold a CANDLE to the written traditions...especially after the third generation. So, all the "dates" of births, lives and deaths are TRULY guessimates. No one cares.