The Buddha of Buddhism is not just Siddhartha Gautama, whose image we see in monasteries. In fact, he is one of several Buddhas. In Mahayana texts, Buddhahood is considered a universal quality inherent in all beings (the tathāgatagarbha concept). From this perspective, Buddhahood is a spiritual state that can be attained by different individuals at different times or that develops in different individuals. The Pali Canon also mentions previous Buddhas (such as Dipankara, Konagamana), which indicates that Siddhartha Gautama is not the only Buddha. Mahayana texts (such as Taisho Tripitaka, numbers 439-448) mention celestial Buddhas such as Amitabha and Vairocana, who are not historical persons, but spiritual symbols. The Buddhist scriptures Pali Canon and Mahayana Sutras mention past Buddhas: such as Vipassi, Kakusandha, Konagamana, Kashyapa, who came before Gautama Buddha. Future Buddha: A person named Maitreya (Metteya) is said to come in the future. So ‘Buddha’ is not the name of a person, but a title, which means “enlightened” or “awakened”. It refers to a spiritual state that many can achieve. So ‘Buddha’ is not a single person, but can be thought of as an ideal or symbolic character.
Everyone knew this from the beginning of the religion of Buddha or Buddhism. Therefore, making Buddha statues with a human figure was forbidden. The oldest Buddha statue is found in Jamal Gari, which is located in the foothills of the mountains of present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which is located on the Pak-Afghan border. This area was under the Indo-Greek empire in 100-150 BC. The idea of making statues is believed to have been added to the Greek or Hellenistic culture.
I think Buddhism came from the Turan region of ancient northern Iran. Zoroastrian God is like a human being or an unknown entity of knowledge and understanding which originates from this conflict. In Sanskrit/Pali, "Jnana" or awakening carries the same meaning as in Persian Avesta "Baodha" or awareness. Knowledge comes from the same root Bodha which means to wake up. Again in Sanskrit/Pali, "Buddha" means the enlightened one, on the other hand in Persian Avesta "Mazda" means the Lord of Wisdom, both of which give divinity to wisdom (not to the living entity). For example, in Sanskrit/Pali, religion (Dhamma) refers to moral truth. On the other hand, in Persian Avesta "Asha" refers to cosmic morality. Which are actually the same.
When people lose the ability to understand abstract things, religion loses its spiritual and emotional value. Then people either worship idols or turn religion into a ritual or ceremony and start the devil's dance with it. However, the same thing happens not only in religion, but also in politics because the problem is related to the extinction of the cognitive or thinking abilities of the brain.
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