Talk:Comparison of Buddhism and Christianity/Archive 1

Dissimlarities
Specious analogy. Will write about it soon. Abhishek Devurkar 13:03, 23 August 2012 (IST) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.134.56.85 (talk)

Merger proposal
See Talk:Buddhism and Christianity. Joshua Jonathan (talk) 07:03, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Based on the talk there, it looks like this can stay by itself, but the Little Tibet item can merge to Lost years of Jesus. History2007 (talk) 23:13, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Similarities
I moved "Similarities" from Buddhism and Christianity to "similarities between Buddhism and Christianity" to shorten the article. Joshua Jonathan (talk) 08:21, 23 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Just noting that it is now a redirect. History2007 (talk) 18:49, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Dalai Lama quote
Where should I put this?

"Jesus Christ also lived previous lives," he said. "So, you see, he reached a high state, either as a Bodhisattva, or an enlightened person, through Buddhist practice or something like that. Then, at a certain period, certain era, he appeared as a new master, and then because of circumstances, he taught certain views different from Buddhism, but he also taught the same religious values as I mentioned earlier: Be patient, tolerant, compassionate. This is, you see, the real message in order to become a better human being." (In an interview with James A. Beverley of CanadianChristianity.com, “Comment: Buddhism's guru”, 4/16/04.) Lipsquid (talk) 22:41, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Three inherent topics
There are three topics in this article, and I suggest that they shouldn't be confused:
 * 1. whether Christianity originated from Therapeutae which originated from Theravada, a very-minority opinion claimed by a few authors, such as Freke and Gandy, which is also popular among Theosophists and other new-Agers, but otherwise generally dismissed
 * 2. how similar Christianity and Buddhism are, irrespective of historical influences,
 * 3. some few Christian Buddhists that claim that Christianity and Buddhism are compatible.

Most people have probably not heard of case 3., but I know there are Lutherans that claim to be Buddhist. Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 11:46, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree that the organization of the article is problematic. What I consider more problematic, though, is the illegitimate use of sources to support statement that supposedly reflect mainstream science. I have removed three of those, and that is just a superficial check of one sentence in the lead, which was supported by four sources, of which I have now removed three. I have therefore tagged the article for original research.-- Farang Rak Tham   (Talk) 16:32, 2 December 2018 (UTC)