Context: According to author Michael Carrithers, while there are good reasons to doubt the traditional account, "the outline of the life must be true: birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death." In writing her biography of the Buddha, Karen Armstrong noted, "It is obviously difficult, therefore, to write a biography of the Buddha that meets modern criteria, because we have very little information that can be considered historically sound... [but] we can be reasonably confident Siddhatta Gotama did indeed exist and that his disciples preserved the memory of his life and teachings as well as they could."[dubious – discuss]

Question: Who said "the outline of the life must be true: birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death."?
Answer: Michael Carrithers

Question: What are some of the outlines of life?
Answer: birth, maturity, renunciation

Question: Who wrote a biography of Buddha?
Answer: Karen Armstrong

Question: What do some say is Buddha's real name?
Answer: Siddhatta Gotama

Question: What are the helpers called that helped Buddha?
Answer: disciples

Question: Who believes "the outline of the life must be true" in reference to Buddha?
Answer: Michael Carrithers

Question: Karen Armstrong wrote a biography on who?
Answer: the Buddha

Question: Karen Armstrong has said that we can be confident who existed?
Answer: Siddhatta Gotama