The Historical Buddha made the following claim, "Since I attained Buddhahood, the time has been immeasurable. Constantly, I have been in this world preaching the Law, teaching, converting countless millions of living beings…as an expedient means, I appear to enter Nirvana, but I truth, I do not enter extinction. I am always here preaching the Law." (Lotus Sutra and its Opening and Closing Sutras, translated by Burton Watson, p267). The Buddha was adamant that we take his words at face value, not as some sort of metaphor or parable, but as historical fact. "Questions I Would Have Asked the Buddha" is the author's attempt to lend credibility to those assertions.