--svatantramasvantantraM cha dvividhaM tatvaMishyate--
--svatantro bhagavAn vishnuH--
Sri Madhvacharya, in his tatvasaMkhyAna
BuddhAvatAra vs. Gautama Buddha's Buddhism
Here is what Shri MadhwachArya says about the two commonly confused “Buddhas” in his mahAbhAratatAtparyanirNaya (MBTN).
From dvaita.net…
Here is the gist of MBTN 32.157
http://www.dvaita.net/releases.html
After dvApara, all devata-s had gone back to their respective loka-s. Sri Vedavyasa also became “invisible” after establishing sadagama-s. After the
passage of thousand human years, the Tripurasura-s who were killed by Rudra were born as Vaidikas, and had access to these sachchastra-s. The devata-s don’t like this [cf.BSB anvadikaranam quoting rigveda 2.23.16;] and approached Sri Vishnu for help. One TripurAsura was born as Shuddhodana, and while he was performing vedic jaata-karma to his baby, Lord Vishnu made this baby disappear and took its place. The [new]baby aka Lord Buddha started
laughing at the vedic ceremonies. To convince them to give up vedic rites[as they were unft], the Lord instigated all devata-s to throw weapons at Him. (in the guise of) baby Buddha swallowed all the weapons including Rudra’s trishul and finally sat on the Vishnu’s Chakra. Then He started preaching “shUnya vAda” (in a way that was misunderstood). Stunned by all these extrodinary prowess, Shuddhodana and his followers adopted “Shunya vaada”.
After this, the Lord disappeared and preached the right meaning of shUnya — Prashanta vidya. The prasiddha Gautama Buddha who came much later [he is not Sri Vishnu avatara]adopted the superficial meaning of shUnya vaada and spread his school aka Buddhism.