WAS THE BUDDHA A JAIN?

[THE BOOK OF LIGHT]

WAS THE BUDDHA A JAIN?

Many Buddhists do not realize that the teachings of the Buddha at its core is not from himself, but that the world renouncement philosophy, with Nirvana as a goal existed long before the Buddha and flourished, and this since about 900 BC in the Jain sect ज्ऐन, while Buddha was born only about 250 years later. It was then finally a Jain guru or a JINA जिन who taught the Buddha and showed him the way to nirvana. This is also the reason why Buddhism adopted many expressions of the Jains, and this resulting in many Jains, that the Buddha did not exist at all, but that just someone has plagiarized from the Jains.

An example or comparison which is now listed here: The Catuh-Sarana चतुह् - सरन, the four refuges of the Jains, is sounding as follows:
cattari Saranam parvajjam parvajjami चत्तरि śअर​ņअम् पर्वज्जम् पर्वज्जमि (I take refuge with the following four rules or refuges):

1) arahamte Saranam parvajjam iअरहम्ते śअर​ņअम् पर्वज्जमि (I seek refuge to the arhats.)
2) Siddh Saranam parvajjami सिद्धे śअर​ņअम् पर्वज्जमि (I seek refuge to the siddhas.)
3) sahu Saranam parvajjami सहु śअर​ņअम् पर्वज्जमि(I take refuge to the dahus.)
4) kevali-pannattam Dhammam Saranam parvajjami धम्मम् सरनम् पर्वज्जमि (I take refuge to the dharma धर्म [Sacred Law], preached by the omniscient Jina.)

A few hundred years later the Buddhists proclaim:
1) Buddham saranam gachchhâmi बुद्धम् śअर​ņअम् गछ्छ्ह्âमि (I seek refuge to the Buddha.)
2) Dhammam Saranam gachchhâmi धम्मम् śअर​ņअम् गछ्छ्ह्âमि (I seek refuge to the light of his teachings or his law.)
3) samgham Saranam gachchhâmi सम्घम् śअर​ņअम् गछ्छ्ह्âमि (I take refuge to the community of the Holy One.)


What is JAIN? What is JINA?

A Jain is one that follows a spiritual hero, a conqueror, a JINA to achieve Nirvana. A JINA again is someone, who forms a passage, a fjord that leads safely across the ocean of suffering to the other side or the other bank. Such a fjord former is also called Tirthankara. Early Buddhists, who either did not know that Buddhism has its roots in Jainism, or did not want to admit it , changed the term in the Pali titthiya Tirthankara, which is a condescending synonym for any non-Buddhists.

Read more in the book "The Meaning of Life Nirvana"
By Christian Anders / Lanoo