> His followers spend a lot of time on the internet saying that he is the greatest buddha of all time
While I have found some of the teachings interesting and occasionally useful, I don't follow Buddhism myself, so perhaps my perspective is insufficient, but this all seems to me a bit bonkers and sort of creepy. "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him", isn't it supposed to be? - as opposed, say, to venerating him as though he were in his own person something special, rather than merely someone with an unusual sort of insight.
While I have found some of the teachings interesting and occasionally useful, I don't follow Buddhism myself, so perhaps my perspective is insufficient, but this all seems to me a bit bonkers and sort of creepy. "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him", isn't it supposed to be? - as opposed, say, to venerating him as though he were in his own person something special, rather than merely someone with an unusual sort of insight.