What is later account on acorns? – [Answer] 2022

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This article tries to look at what later accounts tell us about the story of acorns and how this information can be used to try and solve some of the questions surrounding the life of Buddha (or whether he even existed).

The Acorn Story is where a king named Bimbisara gives his infant son, Siddhartha Gautama, an acorn. This was supposed to symbolise that one day he would become a great tree with many followers. The story goes that when Buddha went on to give up the palace life in favour of becoming a monk, he gave his ring away as part of this process. It was given to his wife Yashodhara who was 5 years old at the time. After she died the ring was passed down to their son Rahula who then gave it away on the same day that Buddha died.

(See: The Acorn Story)

To me, there are many things wrong with this story and I would not be surprised if it is a later invention. We can also see what seems obvious that people have invented many of the supposed facts that we hear about Buddha.

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1) A 5 year old can’t give away anything. They are not yet of an age to be legally accountable for their actions in any way, let alone giving away valuable items such as a ring worth 100,000 dollars or so (Dowling). As it says in the story:

“Rahula, the boy, a few years old, took the ring and put it on his finger. When Yashodhara saw the ring she called out with much joy to her son saying: ‘See Rahula what beautiful toy (I have) given you’. And then she said to Siddhartha who was standing nearby: ‘O noble sir! I now give this precious and costly jewel to my dear little son”.

2) Why would anyone trust 5 year old child like that? It seems ridiculous for him not to steal or hide it. Even if he did give away such an item of high value, who in their right mind would actually accept it ?

3) If you read the story, it is not actually clear that she gives it away. She says ‘look what I have given you’ and then Siddhartha says to Rahula: “please give the ring back to your mother” (Dowling).

4) As mentioned in Buddhism 101 , there are many references that appear to indicate Buddha was married and had a son named Rahula. But this raises questions of why he would say something along the lines of ‘I will go forth for six years and practice severe asceticism… after which time I will return’. It seems like he only stayed gone for 6 months ? This goes against all information found later which tries to paint him as someone who left his wife and child behind.

5) In ‘The Life of Buddha as Legend and History’, The respected scholar E.J Thomas points out that it is unlikely this even happened at all considering the fact that there are no other accounts of such a story anywhere – not even from people who would have been alive when the event supposedly happened;

“There is not a single biography or chronicle belonging to any Indian language, which has come down to us from the century next following Gautama’s death (500 B.C.) in which anything resembling this legend of Buddha’s childhood is to be found.”

6) More information on the absurdities of what later became known as ‘The Acorn Story’ can be seen here .

) A study conducted by the University of Michigan found that it is likely the person we know as Buddha never actually existed but is just a construction from many living and dead humans.

“Among contemporary scholars, there is virtually no one who takes the existence of the Buddha as a historical fact.” (Wikipedia)

It seems clear to me that what we know about Siddhartha Gautama has been fabricated by later scribes and even perhaps his followers.