The first Zen ancestor is Bodhidharma, an Indian monk. However, the more academic answer is found along the trade routes between India and China between 1 BCE and 1 CE when the sutra(s) were being...
I am actually doing a summer assignment on world history now, and one of the chapters was on ancient classical Indian civilization. Hinduism had no creator, unlike every other religion in the world....
According to the Christian religion, no one created God. God simply exists - time has no meaning for the existence of God as God has always been and always will be.