Throughout the history of the world, the earth has seen a myriad of different religions, Christianity, and Buddhism are just two of the thousands of religions there are. Christianity and Buddhism have many differences such as their founders and clergy, scripture and sin, and life after death, yet, they also have so many similarities, such as personal well being, hate and love, and ethics of reciprocity. Christianity was developed and founded in the first century A.D, after Christ's crucifixion and resurrection according to BBC (2014). Buddhism didn’t come around until the sixth century B.C.E, when Siddhartha Gautama (Asia Society, 2018).
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on life, teachings, and miracles of Jesus from Nazareth,
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known by christians as the christ or the Messiah, and is the focal point of the Christian religion. Christianity was founded by Jesus Christ, who was conceived by the holy spirit and born to the virgin Mary. Christianity is by far the largest religion in the world today, with over two billions followers worldwide (BBC Home, 2014). Three of the most common topics is the christian religion is Noah and the Arch, Jesus’s crucifixion, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God’s only son. Noah was a righteous man who walked with God. God saw the corruption in the world and decided to flood the whole earth. God told Noah to build an Ark of gopher wood, and take one of each animal, one male and one female and bring them onto the ark. Noah was also aloud to bring his family members. After all the animals were on the ark, God flooded the world, riding all the corruption and violence (New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, 1989). According to the Holy Bible, that Christians sacred text, and from a Jewish perspective, “He claimed to be the Messiah King, at least indirectly. His disciples and later many of the poor common people, the “am-ha-aretz”, believed Him to be the promised Messiah. And He obviously could not be, coming from the small village of Nazareth in Galilee. He was obviously misleading the common people.” (John 7:52, Mark 14:61–64). Although from Pontius Pilots, and the romans view, Jesus claimed indirectly that he was the king of the Jews (Luyt, 2016). After the crucifiction of Jesus, his body was placed in a cave like structure, and the Romans rolled a large boulder in front of the cave. Three days later the Jew come looking for him, when they freed the tomb of the bolder, the body of Jesus was gone. Jesus had resurrected from the dead. Buddhism was founded by Buddha Shakyamuni who lived and taught in India two and a half thousand years ago. Today millions of people around the world have followed the pure spiritual path he revealed. The Buddhist way of life of peace, loving kindness and wisdom is just as relevant today as it was in ancient India. Buddha explained that all our problems and suffering come from confused and negative mindsets, and that all our happiness and good fortune come from peaceful and positive states of mind. He taught methods for gradually overcoming our negative minds such as anger, jealousy and ignorance, and developing our positive minds such as love, compassion and wisdom. Through this we will come to experience lasting peace and happiness. These methods work for anyone, in any country, in any age. Once we have gained experience of them for ourselves we can pass them on to others so they too can enjoy the same benefits. Jesus Christ is the founder of Christianity. Buddha, known to the Buddhists as Siddhartha Gautama, is the founder of the Buddhist. Christians and Buddhism, for the most part have very different clergy. Christians have priests, bishops, ministers, monks, and nuns to convey the word of God, and Buddhism uses Monks to spread their word. While they both use Monks, they use then in different ways, Christianity uses then to convert the word of god out loud, and buddhist are more subtle. The scripture between the two religions varies drastically, Christians use The Holy Bible, is a book believed to contain the revelations of God and is the guiding holy text of the Christian religion. Buddhists use the Tripitaka a vast canon composed of three sections. The three section contain the Discourses, the Discipline and the Commentaries, and some early scriptures, such as the Gandhara texts. Christianity bases their life after death on Eternity in Heaven or Hell, in some cases temporal Purgatory.
Heaven is where God, Jesus's father remains. There is only one way to spend eternity in Heaven, and that is by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ (All About, 2018). In the bible it states, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9. Rebirth is one of the central beliefs of Buddhism. Buddhists believe they are in an endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth, which can only be broken by attaining nirvana (Bhikkhu, 2012). Attaining nirvana is the only way to escape suffering permanently. Nirvana is a “transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism, which in turn leads to …show more content…
rebirth.” Personal well being and Prayer Although hatred and love, are two very controversial topics in some aspects of the world, to christians and buddhist, they are simple. In both religions, they are taught to love rather than hate. According to Marty Abdon a leading editor at Quora, “Both religions stress ethical living, compassion / love to other people.Both taught to overcome the forces of hate through the power of love.The Buddha ‘hatred cannot be overcome by hatred’ The Christ ‘Love your enemy’” (Abdon, 2017) Buddhism, Christianity and all of the other major world religions share one basic rule of behavior which depict how they are supposed treat others.
Two quotations from Buddhist texts which reflect this Ethic are "...a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?" Samyutta NIkaya v. 353, and "Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful." Udana-Varga 5:18. This compares closely to Christianity's Golden Rule, which is seen in: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” Matthew 7:12."...and don't do what you hate..." Gospel of Thomas 6. This Gospel was widely used in early Christianity but never made it into the official canon because of its Gnostic content. However, it remains valuable today because it seems to have preserved many unique sayings of Jesus that do not appear in other gospels (Religious Tolerance,
2010)
Buddhism teaches that humans have a repetitive cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. Each reincarnated life is decided into a better, worse, or a similar life, depending upon the person's Karma. The goal is to escape from this cycle and reach Nirvana, and once this is attained, the mind is free from suffering. Buddhism teaches a lesson through its followers in order to make them fully understand that one lives for a reason, which is to eliminate all their desires. Document 6 it quotes,
It is said that history is shaped by the lives of great men. Great men are leaders. They bring about change; they improve the lives of others; they introduce new ideas, models, and theories to society. Most of the world's religions were founded, developed, or discovered by great men. Two particular religions - Christianity and Buddhism - developed in different parts of the world, under different circumstances, and in different social atmospheres. But each religion is based upon the teachings of a great man. When one compares the life of Buddha with the life of Jesus, one finds that the two share many things in common. This essay aims to compare and contrast the lives of Buddha1 and Jesus in two key areas: conception and birth. In these two areas, one finds that the Buddha and Jesus share many similarities.
Buddhism and Christianity were each founded by one person, and then eventually grew into two of the largest religions in the world. Each religion had different reasons
Hinduism and Buddhism have different similarities and are in some ways connected to each other. Some of the practices of the two religions are similar in various ways and there are several examples to show this.
This paper is a comparison between two very different religions. Specifically Christianity and Buddhism. Coming from opposite sides of the globe these two religions could not be any farther apart in any aspect. I will discuss who Christ is for Christians and who Buddha is for Buddhists. I will also get into the aspects of charity, love, and compassion in both religions and I will be looking at the individual self and how christians see resurrection where the buddhists feel about the afterlife. One thing to keep in mind is that the two religions are very different but they seem to have a very similar underlying pattern. Both believe that there was a savior of their people, Buddha and Christ, and both believe that there is something good that happens to us when our time is done here on earth. This is a very generalized summarization but in order to go in to depth I need to explain the two religions more to fully convey this theory.
A community, a system of belief, a tradition and a way of life- Catholicism and Theravada Buddhism are all of these and many more. There are many affinities between Theravada Buddhism and Catholicism, but each tradition is marked with its own unique origins. Thus it is valuable to explore Buddhist rituals, practices, ethics and morals comparatively to those Catholic, but equally important to examine those features that are uniquely their own religion.
All Buddhist final and ultimate goals are to reach Nirvana. Nirvana is a state of being perfect, ending the process of reincarnation and beginning re-birth. There is a significant difference in the way Buddhist and Hindus view re-birth. The Buddhist believe in re-birth meaning that neither the soul nor the person gets transferred, while Hindus believe in reincarnation where the soul would travel from one body to another (the same person but in different bodies). However both believe in Samsara along with their views on suffering and that everyone will even...
In Christianity there are the Original and individual sins, and in Buddhism there are the Five Deadly Sins. However, traditional Christians view sins more strictly than Buddhists. The Five Deadly sins, for example, are seen as Although the concept of sins is not a key concept in Buddhism, one cannot completely exclude it from Buddhism because its doctrines do not deny the presence of evil (“Pure Land”). The principle of the Golden Rule is a shared idea in most religions and so is it in both Christianity and Buddhism (“Introduction”). One could conclude that if humankind followed the teachings of the Golden Rule, that this could prevent most of our sins.
Christianity is mainly founded on the life, death, teachings, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christianity was developed from Judaism during the 1st century, it has several different branches and forms which accompany different beliefs and practices. Christianity
Before we compare the sacred works and teachings of Christianity and Buddhism, it is important to understand what we are working with here. In Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha) was born to a royal family in India in 563 BCE (VIRTUE 4.2). Buddhist texts say that Siddhartha married and had a child, but he eventually became disillusioned with palace life and the life of luxury. After making trips outside the palace where he observed sickness, old age, and death, Siddhartha was shocked. After many weeks of intense meditation, he gained supreme wisdom (VIRTUE 4.2). Siddhartha was able to at last, understood things as they truly are. He thus became, Buddhists posit, the Buddha, or “The Awakened One.” In Christianity, the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or Jesus Christ, are the teachings most revered today in the Christian religion. The 'Sermon on the Mount' has been a core text of Christian
“If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth... Hinduism is the religion of truth. Truth is God.”
Due to their prominence in Asia, India and the Middle East, Buddhism and Islam have become two of the most dominantly practiced religions throughout the world. Because of their of emphasis on peace and prosperity, Islam and Buddhism share several common aspects of the religions, as well as many differences that many overlook. Their similarities and comparisons spread widely throughout both religion but some of the main factors that can be focused on include their rituals, theology and role of women.
It is essential to commence with the following two quotes which respectively define the Christian and Buddhist’s fundamental notion of salvation, and displays aspects of the two opposing worldviews. Firstly, Jesus said "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16, NIV). Secondly, Buddha spoke "The long road of transmigration is a road of pain for the traveller: let him rest by the road and be free" (The Dhammapada, translated by Juan Mascaro 1973, v. 302). The first quote assumes a lineal event-filled theocentric view of time, a world-loving empathetic view of suffering, and salvation being Christocentric. In general, Christianity’s means of salvation is also defined through Christ's death and resurrection, by grace, through faith, not by works lest anyone should boast (Ephesians 2:9). The second quote however, Buddha assume...
Buddhism and Christianity seem to be two different worlds in their differences between the belief of a “god” in which Buddhism is a non-theistic, or no god, religion and Christianity is a monotheistic, or one god, religion and the “afterlife.” However, in a greater glance, while there are differences in the religion they have more in common than one could imagine.
Christianity and Buddhism are two of the most popular religions in the world. Each religion has their separate demographic, belief systems as well as rituals. Buddhism is centered upon the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha, where Christianity is centered on the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ.Christianity and Buddhism may seem that they don’t have a lot of similarities but surely both religions have a lot of similarities. In the next 3 paragraphs, the similarities and differences of Christianity and Buddhism will be explained.