Do you think Jesus and the Buddha may have been the same person?

there are no similarities other than a basic agreement that human interaction should be based on compassion and respect.

The Buddha rarely went into solitude, he was mostly out searching for people interested in what he had to say.

and since 500 years separate them, they cannot be the same person. The teachings are also very different. The Buddhist teaching of emptiness basically negates the Judaic God.

No.

Even if you set aside the different time periods they each lived in, what they said and what they taught were very different things.

Siddhartha would have said that there are no gods. He had an interesting personal life journey. He based his thinking on his native Hinduism and his personal life experience.

Jesus, however, affirmed the Jewish religion, saying that there was one God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jesus was the fulfillment of well over a hundred prophecies and prophetic statements. His coming, specifically, had been prophesied since the time of Adam and Eve. From big things like His place of birth, to lesser things such as that none of His bones would be broken, Jesus' life fulfilled those prophecies.

Even things like this show up in the Torah (the Old Testament). In Psalms 22, written around 1000 years before Jesus' crucifixion, we can see an incredible prophecy poem. It is literally as though King David were looking through Jesus eyes while He hung on the cross. There is so much that directly corresponds, it's incredible, even the people gambling for His clothes.

When comparing Jesus and Buddha, it is plain that, in general, there is no comparison. Siddhartha was just a guy. Jesus (Yeshua, if you like) was an incredible figure of prophecy and paved the way for the world's people to be able to become as children of God, with all that entails. He was and is the Son aspect of God, and it is Jesus who people will see on the throne at Judgement.

P.S.- When Jesus went into the wilderness to fast and pray, it was to prepare Himself to begin His ministry by ensuring His will was the will of God the Father and going through testing, like when Satan tempted Him. It was not just to find peace. There is much that appears to point to Jesus really having to be a human while here, including wrestling with human nature to subordinate His will to the Father, as an example for us, and we will always know that when we go through things, God does reeeally understand.

I feel they shouldn't have been interested in the equal things. Buddha used to be now not worried with "afterlife" or the supernatural. Jesus is harder to fathom on the grounds that his teachings have been so corrupted and transformed that it is difficult to grasp his common intent. For illustration i do not suppose Jesus ever claimed divinity. This kind of thing would have most likely made the Buddha snigger I consider.

No. They were not the same people. But they did teach the same things.

Oddly, Christianity no longer follows the teachings of Jesus. Does that mean you don't really follow the teachings of Buddha?

Do you have a live qualified teacher to instruct you in how to be a Buddhist? If not, you probably aren't doing it properly.

No, The Buddha lived 1500 years before Jesus. Jesus and Osiris are the same stories

though there are some similarities there are also many differences between the teaching and the lives of the two founders. firstly Jesus said about a god said that he is great and to keep faith in him, buddha said that here is no god , mind is great and keep faith in your self. Jesus said about believing and praying while Buddha said not to believe anything because he said it but to think by your own consciousness and instead of praying to meditate and develop your mind and gave the full freedom to criticize or question any thing in hiss teachings . the teaching of jesus were spread after he was crucified but not during his lifetime but during Buddhas time there were thousands of followers including kings of some states. Jesus said about the heaven you can get after death but buddha said about the nirvana you can get during the human life. Jesus said that humans were slaves of god but buddha said that they are fully independent great being and said that it was their are own thought which makes then either slaves or rulers finally Jesus died for others but buddha lived 80 years for others traveling and preaching and sleeping only for three hours per day.respect both of them but you can follow the religion of one only because one is the religion of god other the religion of mind and humanity.

No they are almost nothing alike. Christianity is very different from Buddhism. I think a better example to Jesus would be Krishna.

No they weren't. The Buddha lived some 500 years earlier and never pretended to be a god.

Jesus is the LORD God Almighty

Buddha is dead man who because of his rejecting salvation in Christ alone has went the way of all the Earth.

Not even close. They are both from different religions...one that makes sense and one that does not. I think you can guess which is which.