Some say that the Buddha was a man--a good, holy, or wise man, but just a man. Others may think that he is the Buddhist version of God. But the Buddha is neither man nor God. Born just as we are born, by his own efforts he became an enlightened being, a journey we too can undertake if we so choose. Sangharakshita, a Western Buddhist practitioner and teacher for fifty years, looks at the Buddha in the contexts of time and eternity, karma and rebirth, his life and teachings, and helps answer the question: who is the Buddha?
