Gautama Vs Buddha

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Compare the message and spirit behind the Sermon on the Mount with that of the Buddha’s first sermon, “Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Law” (source 16.) Which strike you as more pronounced, their differences or similarities? What do you conclude from your answer?

In comparing the two messages, one would find that both are extremely similar. In both messages, the prophets are preaching a message and it is being conveyed to an audience about how to conduct one's self in order to reach either the Kingdom of God or Nirvana. The Buddha Gautama the “Enlightened One” is a prince from a “sheltered court life,” who wanted to “remedy suffering” and wanted to escape the sorrows of mortal existence. Joshua or as he is known by is Greek name Jesus is

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