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Jesus Christ in Buddhism?

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Aspen 2010

PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:46 pm


My friend tells me that Jesus had something to do with Buddhism, can anyone tell me if you know.
PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:47 pm


From Wikipedia:

"Gruber and Kersten (1995) claim that Buddhism had a substantial influence on the life and teachings of Jesus.[5] They claim that Jesus was influenced by the teachings and practices of Therapeutae, described by the authors as teachers of the Buddhist Theravada school then living in Judaea. They assert that Jesus lived the life of a Buddhist and taught Buddhist ideals to his disciples; their work follows in the footsteps of the Oxford New Testament scholar Barnett Hillman Streeter, who established as early as the 1930s that the moral teaching of the Buddha has four remarkable resemblances to the Sermon on the Mount."[6]"

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Ren Tohimaru

PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:52 am


...Buddhism was a world away from Christ...almost literally.
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