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Saint Jerome (4th century AD) mentions the birth of the Buddha, who he says "was born from the side of a virgin," [60] and the influential early Christian church father Clement of Alexandria (d. 215) mentioned Buddha (Βούττα) in his Stromata (Bk I, Ch XV). [52] The legend of Christian saints Barlaam and Josaphat draws on the life of the ...
Most scholars believe there is no historical evidence of any influence by Buddhism on Christianity. [verification needed] Leslie Houlden states that although modern parallels between the teachings of Jesus and Buddha have been drawn, these comparisons emerged after missionary contacts in the 19th century and there is no historically reliable evidence of contacts between Buddhism and Jesus. [28]
Bokin Kim, similarly, sees Christ as the Buddha Dharmakaya, and Jesus as similar to Gautama who was just a historical manifestation of the transhistorical Buddha. [28] In The Lotus & The Rose: A Conversation Between Tibetan Buddhism & Mystical Christianity , Lama Tsomo and Matthew Fox discuss the interconnections between Buddhism and Christianity.
The role of Greek Buddhist monks in the development of the Buddhist faith under the patronage of Emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE and subsequently during the reign of the Indo-Greek king Menander (r. 165/155–130 BCE) is described in the Mahavamsa, an important non-canonical Theravada Buddhist historical text compiled in Sri Lanka in the 6th century in the Pali language.
Regarding the happiness of the next life, the Buddha (in the Dīghajāṇu Sutta) states that the virtues which lead to a good rebirth are: faith (in the Buddha and the teachings), moral discipline, especially keeping the five precepts, generosity, and wisdom (knowledge of the arising and passing of things).
[122] [note 22] While the Theravada-tradition holds that the Sutta Pitaka is "the definitive recension of the Buddha-word", [123] and Theravadins argue that it is likely that the sutras date back to the Buddha himself, in an unbroken chain of oral transmission, [web 22] [web 23] [note 23] academic scholars have identified many such ...
Chapter 2: The following morning, the Buddha tells his story to the gathered disciples. He begins the story by telling of his previous life, in which the future Buddha was living in the heavenly realms surrounded by divine pleasures. In this previous life, he was known as the Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva is enjoying the immense pleasures of his ...
The Buddha says that the merits of teaching the sutra is immeasurable and that any place where it is being taught or copied is a holy place. [44] Chapter 22: Entrustment. The Buddha transmits the Lotus Sūtra to all bodhisattvas in his congregation and entrusts them with its safekeeping and its propagation far and wide.