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Buddhism's Relation to Christianity: A Review by D.M. Murdock Kindle Edition
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
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 6, 2012
- File size972 KB
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #883,363 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #136 in Buddhist History (Kindle Store)
- #367 in Buddhist History (Books)
- #814 in One-Hour Religion & Spirituality Short Reads
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About the author
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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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.
Maybe even placebo. That is not a bad thing...good intentions, right?
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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.