Yes. The Buddha cannot be linked to any historical fact. It's not clear there ever was a man called that. He's more of a culture hero who emerges as an archetype for a particular tribal group during the 2nd urbanisation of India, and is then universalised.
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I do everything I can to modify my dharma practice so no one can call it Buddhism: I queer it, Beat it, modernize it, hybridize it, bastardize it, politicize it, scientize it, render it unrecognizable.
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—to escape the strangulating clutches of institutional Buddhism.
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