Dhammapade verses 153 & 154 describe the enlightenment of Buddha
Shakyamuni with the metaphor of collapsing a house. This house
has been explained as standing for ego, self and name and form.
The historical event of the collapsing of the Tower of Babel
(Babylon) happened at the time of Shakyamuni's enlightenment as
its outer symbolic event. Therefore the timing of Siddhartha
Gautama must be at the same time period as the collapsing of the
Tower of Babel. Theists want to remove Siddhartha Gautama away
from everything that he has done, we don't have to accept this.
Naturally theistic traditions also give an entirely negative
view of the Complete and Perfect Enlightenment that took place
then. Buddha Gautama discovered a truly universal teaching, this
the theists declared to be "confusion of tongues". Time is a
fluid factor, as Nagarjuna has said. This is concretely true,
though difficult to perceive. At the time of Siddhartha Gautama
the Indus River civilisation (India) was in close contact with
the culture of