[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882) › c8.4 # Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.4 Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.4 - **Language:** English ### [c8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c8.4) That ingenious student of Indian antiquity who has occupied himself most closely with this question, Emile Senart,† answers it with an absolute NO. A Buddha may have lived somewhere at some period, but that Buddha, of whom Buddhist tradition speaks, has never lived. This Buddha is not a man: his birth, the struggles he undergoes, and his death, are not those of a man. - [Previous: c8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c8.3) - [Next: c8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c8.5) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c8.4) · Pramāṇa