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Buddhism's Relation to Christianity: A Review by D.M. Murdock Kindle Edition

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In this ebook, independent comparative religion scholar D.M. Murdock (aka "Acharya S") reviews Dr. Michael Lockwood's book "Buddhism's Relation to Christianity." This review is a book in and of itself, providing numerous important excerpts along with commentary by Murdock, along with a table of contents.

This ebook is designed for scholars and students of comparative religion and mythology, with an eye to enthusiasts in the field of "Jesus mythicism," the thesis that the figure of "Jesus Christ" in the New Testament represents not a single, historical personage but an allegorical archetype. This archetype, therefore, constitutes a compilation of characters, some mythical and some historical. In this regard, one of the figures used in the creation of the Christ character was "the Buddha," also a mythical compilation of characters.

As Lockwood demonstrates with his anthology and commentary, there is much primary-source evidence to demonstrate that Buddhism made its way West during the Great Mission of Buddhist convert King Ashoka. Once at Alexandria, Egypt, this Buddhism was reworked over a period of centuries to become what we know as "Christianity."

Original material used in this ebook review is available by permission of the author, Dr. Michael Lockwood. Note that this ebook is not the original title by Lockwood.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Buddhist Parallels in Sculpture
What is "pre-Christian?"
Tales of the Buddha
Miraculous Birth
Master and Disciples
The Visit of the Sage
Temptation by the Evil One
Walking on Water
Buddhist Parallels in Inscriptions
Medical Missionaries
Buddha Becomes a Christian Saint
The Saints are Gods of Other Cultures
Parable Parallels
St. Josaphat, aka BuddhaThe Lotus Sutra
The 500 Brothers
Parallel Sayings
Firsts Established by Buddhism
Buddhist Sexism
Were the Therapeuts of Egypt Buddhists?
Angels and Saints
The Two Thieves
Pythagoras and Apollonius of Tyana
Indians in the Mediterranean
From Alexandria to Sri Lanka
Relics and Confession
The Calling of Councils
Printing of Scriptures
Alms-Giving
The Historicity of Jesus
Jesus Mythicism
Buddhist and NT Scholars
Criticism
Bibliography
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00K0V922Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stellar House Publishing (March 6, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 6, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 972 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 43 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 56 ratings

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D.M. Murdock, also known by her pen name, "Acharya S," is the author of several books on comparative religion and mythology, including "The Christ Conspiracy," "Suns of God," "Who Was Jesus?" and "Christ in Egypt." She is also the author of "The Gospel According to Acharya S," which seeks to answer some long-held questions concerning the nature of God, religion and humankind's place in the world.

Murdock is an alumna of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, where she studied Classics, Greek Civilization. She has lived in Greece and is also an alumna of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. Acharya has excavated at Corinth, Greece, where tradition has St. Paul addressing the Corinthians, as well as at a Paleo-Indian site in the U.S. She speaks, reads and/or writes to varying degrees English, French, Spanish, ancient and modern Greek, Latin, German and other languages.

Acharya/Murdock has several websites, including TruthBeKnown.com, StellarHousePublishing.com, TBKNews.blogspot.com and FreethoughtNation.com.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2014
D.M. Murdock brings forth credible and verifiable evidence for every claim she makes. She continues to bring new information to light in a way that only she can. She actually can work in the ancient languages of the time and era. Very few, if any scholars have the incredible gift with language that she does. She is also free of the shackles of religious , academic, and political agenda. Her work is true light and our closest hope to knowing the truth about so many things in our past.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2015
This contains a condensed version of this book. It is well organized and easy to follow. It presents a view of history that is usually ignored by mainstream scholars. I recommend this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2022
This book seems to be the work of an esoteric scholar and befitting the fellow scholars to dig deep into it and to spark the debates that will lead to the conclusion. It's of no use to the readers+pedestrians who know nothing about the field for it quotes a lot and refers a lot to ancient stories and informations. It's most important to realize that it's the review of D. M. Murdock of the book: Buddhism's Relation to Christianity by Michael Lockwood. I stumbled into 20% of it without realizing that it's a review. Nevertheless, I ended up reading the book twice.

The main idea seems to be that Buddhism, which originated about 500 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, influenced a lot of Christian beliefs and doctrines.

Another interesting story is that Jesus might just be mythical stories from various sources, devoid of any real historical existence.

As a Christian, I believe that ours is the religion of faith, it does not base on reasoning nor evidence. Therefore, it shouldn't concern us if Jesus doubtfully existed or not, WE HAVE FAITH IN JESUS.

I bought this book (for $0.99) because I'm interested in finding out about the miracles of Jesus. I think in this 21st century, Christians should try to go by academicism and scientism for they absolutely advocate truth and we believe our religion talks TRUTH.

Please read Amazon book review of this book for factual contents of the book.
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2015
doesn't really explain the difference as far as I can tell.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2017
Joe was right, Christianity seems to be Buddhism 1.2
Maybe even placebo. That is not a bad thing...good intentions, right?
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Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2017
Terrific book.
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016
Not good. Just a bunch of "facts" pulled out of thin air.
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2015
Very enlightening!

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Reviewed in Japan on July 30, 2015
This book chrystal-clearly contains what I have been wondering about and seeking for my long pending questions.
Author herein explains to readers well enough how Christianity was influenced by Buddhism and Ancient Egyptian religions.
Christianity grew by absorbing part of them and discarded some others. As a result, then-global and unprecedented super-natural
religion was created, and Europeans have been long under the custody of huge religious clout badly and sadly for centuries.
Reversely, as the backlash came out the probe for scientific thinking - Renaissance-.
Roman world before, and in Western world now including N/S America now, many people are still educated in such a way
since childhood and programmed to believe in super "God" for good and for bad.
Problematic is the fact and mentality that see East (Egypt and India incl religions) as lower and had cut off them and ignored them.
What lies in the core of their mind is "religious solidity as solid as stone". Anyway, this book suggests a lot and is worth reading.

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