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Setting aside the visual motifs like the sword and the mask and the hat, any *story* of Zorro really requires three elements:

1) a small group of tyrannical oppressors currently in power 2) a large population being unjustly oppressed 3) a small group of reasonably comfortable people who are aware of the injustices but remain neutral because it isn’t directly affecting them *yet*

Zorro, then, is the story of someone from group 3 who makes the conscious choice to fight against group 1 and defend group 2, and ultimately must convince group 3 to shake off their neutrality and join his struggle.

If you swap "Zorro" for "The Buddha" and "fight against" for "enlighten" I think it still mostly works. Yup, looks like I'm not the first person to have this thought.