It doesn't make Jesus and the Buddha the same.
They're the same as two pieces of the same jigsaw puzzle....They're the same being two Elohim/Avatars/Elders...
Their knowledge of Oneness (Heaven) is unified, as they both teach the same methods to reaching it.
Yet if you would like to list where you believe they are not the same, that might be easier; as currently you seem to encompass much of Christian ideology, without knowing all the differences.
For the Buddha, Indra was still the king of the gods.
You see i don't find that, i find Buddha referring to the universal mind, and removing concepts of deification of the Divine, as it creates self ideas.
Thus my knowledge of what Buddha is referring to is Brahman without self, and without a name; as then it eliminates Buddha's ideologies being confused with the Hindu ideas already established, that he was trying to show have flaws..
Where one of the biggest concepts is 'self' realization, so encompassing Advaita as the school of thought some of this came from is totally alien, when that is the concepts Buddha was rejecting.
you don't find it problematic that as one believing in the Bible, as you do
I don't believe in books; i fulfill certain bits, and know how some of it historically and prophetically adds up...
Thus based on probability, there is a 90+% chance its prophetic implications are real, and are going to take place...
Also because these same prophetic implications are revealed in multiple other religions eschatologies the same.
which argues for a monotheistic worldview
Elohim (H430) is plural, El (H410) is singular...
There is one God Most High (El Elyon) in the first temple period, and then a
council of Elohim (Avatars) with YHVH at its head.
Judaism since the return from the Babylonian Exile has tried to create a stricter form of monotheism, that doesn't exist in their text...
And thus they didn't understand when Yeshua came claiming to be YHVH, as they think that is a name for God, and not that it means the "Lord To Be" physically manifest.
This is why i was saying to you about 24 elders in Revelation, these are similar to the 24 incarnations of Vishnu surrounding Brahman (CPU).
The Buddha was simply not a monotheist.
Since Hinduism is ultimately Monotheist, and the statements by Buddha about the universal mind is ultimately Monotheist (Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra); thinking representatives are gods, is of a lower materialistic mind then the comprehension of Buddha was at.... All is ultimately One.
Vishnu and Shiva are not part of a monotheistic framework.
Vishnu means "all pervasive".
Shiva means "Auspicious".
They are aspects of the Oneness of the CPU, there isn't two CPUs manifesting reality; there are just many different forms of the Divine, including us (if we recognize it).
Like in the Psalms 82:6 it says, 'we're all Elohim, and are children of the Most High'; many get this confused, try to re-translate it to make it fit with their own presuppositions, rather then question what it actually says...
All of us are fallen angels in someway, and it is due to our own potential that we can ascend back again, if we walk consistently towards enlightenment.
In my opinion.