Well, about Buddha's life, like I said he was born in a castle but lived a normal life.
Anyway, I always wonder how these fellows are getting very rich like this.
To my eyes, he seems to be setting up a big wealth and financial empire by owning lot of lands, starting agriculture economy, etc.
He seems to be exploiting regular person's mental weaknesses (which is what most of those religious leaders / astrologers, gambling businesses does). We naturally have lower capability in dealing with things like probabilistic facts, highly generalized concepts.
And honestly, the stuff he says, I also can say similar things that are a bit abstract and sparsely meaningful (specially after a couple of drinks).
Also, the biggest question is why do people paying him for buddhism when buddhism is pretty much everywhere in Sri Lanka.
lot of things doesn't sound right to me with this type of fellows.