Did Gautama Buddha really make a new religion?

The idea of "Hinduism" as a single, unified religious system only dates back to about 1850. Tthe word "Hindu" existed already -it was a Persian word for the people across the Indus river, and later the Moghul ruling class used it to mean "everybody else. read more

’ The answer is that Buddha was a Hindu monk. He and many others have proposed many systems of spiritual thought. These systems embrace a whole range from atheism to theism to non-theism. Buddha’s non-theistic system became very popular during the 500 BCE to 500 ACE period. read more

That is where personal personal debate comes in and goes beyond the scope of this question. Personally I think much of the"ism" today is far from the original teachings and vision of the Buddha, other's may think differently. read more

So Buddhism is the religion of following the Buddha's teachings. BTW: Buddha means Awakened One. We call Siddhartha Gautama The Buddha because we believe he was the first person to wake up and understand how the world really is. read more