youknowme123321;609143 said:Woah don't be wrong around Dmoney...
I wonder which info is fact though. to many readings on the internet jumping all over the place when you google Gautama Buddha. any good links guys to info guys?
One of the good things about Buddhism is that right after Buddha died, all of his disciples gathered wrote down everything he ever taught (which is easy to memorize because of the way he spoke and everything was repeated). Therefore the Pali Canon is pretty much exactly as Buddha would have taught. On top of that, record keeping was a big deal for Indian people, so the majority of the information regarding his life before enlightenment is actually correct. As for his religion beforehand, he never said directly what he was, but there are suttas which describe some of his actions in hopes of reaching nibbana and they were things commonly done by Jainists such as extreme starvation.