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The Development of Chinese Zen After the Sixth Patriarch in the Light of the Mumonkan (1953, First Zen Institute of America) A History of Zen Buddhism (1963, Pantheon Books) Christianity Meets Buddhism (1974, Open Court Publishing) Buddhism in the Modern World (1976, Macmillan Publishing) Zen Enlightenment: Origins and Meaning (1979, Weatherhill)
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 6th-century Buddhism ... (12 C, 9 P) C. 6th-century Christianity (7 C, 9 P) H. 6th-century Hinduism (2 C) J. 6th-century ...
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]
In the 20th century Christian monastics such as Thomas Merton, Wayne Teasdale, David Steindl-Rast and the former nun Karen Armstrong, and Buddhist monastics such as Ajahn Buddhadasa, Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama have taken part in an interfaith dialogue about Buddhism and Christianity.
During the 6th century, Roman Emperor Justinian I launched a military campaign in Constantinople to reclaim the western provinces from the Germans, starting with North Africa and proceeding to Italy. Though he was temporarily successful in recapturing much of the western Mediterranean he destroyed the urban centers and permanently ruined the ...
Buddhism was introduced to the Three Kingdoms of Korea beginning around 372 CE. [129] During the 6th century, many Korean monks traveled to China and India to study Buddhism and various Korean Buddhist schools developed. Buddhism prospered in Korea during the North–South States Period (688–926) when it became a dominant force in society. [126]
Fifth, 8th, and 12th century accounts of the conversion of Georgia reveal how pre-Christian practices were taken up and reinterpreted by Christian narrators. [ 264 ] In 325, the Kingdom of Aksum (Modern Ethiopia and Eritrea ) became the second country to declare Christianity as its official state religion.
Missionaries also wrote tracts in Sinhalese attacking Buddhism and promoting Christianity. [191] Robert Inglis, a 19th-century British Conservative, likened Buddhism to "idolatry" during a parliamentary debate in 1852 over the relationship of "Buddhist priests" to the British colonial government. [192]