Light And A Man

In Buddhism, a man is enlightened.
In John's Gospel, the light becomes a man.
Are these the same process, differently described?

The Cosmic Buddha of the Mahayana Sutras,
the Incarnate Word of the Fourth Gospel and
the cosmic form of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita -

- each transcend an original human being. 

Addendum: The above post is copied from the Religion and Philosophy blog. Its relevance here is that, in Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, Adzel is a Wodenite Mahayana Buddhist, Axor is a Wodenite Jerusalem Catholic priest and Chunderban Desai is a human Ramanujan of Hindu descent. Thus, Anderson imagines that human and other beings will perpetuate these traditions into the future.