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by laneyboo on February 24th, 2005

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How do Buddhists regard Jesus Christ?

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  • by webgrunt on November 28th, 2005

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    There is no one way that all Buddhists regard Jesus Christ, because the teachings of Buddha do not say that you should or should not, can or cannot worship a god or follow another religion. Everyone who follows those teachings is left to his or her self to decide how to regard Jesus Christ or anyone else.

    Buddha didn't teach about religions, he taught awareness and how through awareness, human suffering can be alleviated. In the teachings of the Buddha one does not find instruction on how to regard God or any religious figure. That is why there is no one particular way Buddhists would regard Jesus Christ. Buddha left that up to the individual.

    Buddha never claimed to be a god, prophet or even a saint. Some sects of Buddhism do pray to or worship the Buddha as a deity, but that has nothing to do with Buddha's teachings, it's something that other people decided to do later.


    Note that I am referring only to the Buddha's teachings. As for Buddhism itself, there many sects which have their own sets of beliefs and practices that they add into the teachings of Buddha. Some of those sects may promote their own beliefs and systems of beliefs under what they call "Buddhism" and those beliefs may include some specific way to regard Jesus.

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    • ABSOLUTELY!! I shouldn't have answered before reading this. I probably wouldn't have bothered.

      Metaphiz

      by Metaphiz on January 19th, 2007

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