Talk:Comparison of Buddhism and Christianity

Some content still lacking

Some more recent work has been done on possible cultural parallels and interactions after the rise of Christianity (Derrett), but there is overall hardly any documentary evidence, and certainly no uncontested material, that is explicitly or implicitly relevant to the task of relating Jesus to Buddhism until the late nineteenth century, when colonial and missionary contact and textual translations made people from the two traditions more aware of each other’s ideas. These nineteenth-century observations and comparisons laid the foundations for the dialogues of the twentieth century, and by the late twentieth century substantial movements in Buddhist-Christian contact and dialogue were producing sophisticated material from scholars and practitioners in both traditions, including reflections on the relationship between Jesus and Buddhism.

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-- from Houlden, J.L., 2003. Jesus in history, thought, and culture: an encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO.. I think this brief overview from a recent reliable source shows that many things have not been covered yet in this article.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 17:07, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

This and the other buddhism christianity articles

Neither of these pages actually talk about the similarities in any extensive way, probably because to do so would need a decent education in theology and buddhism; the articles repeatedly say "there are similarities" but never mention WHAT these are, one example could be that many interpretations of Original Sin are almost equivalent to buddhisms "worldly attachments" and thus their theory on the origin of suffering is equivalent. 90.247.227.132 (talk) 01:27, 13 July 2023 (UTC)