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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 ...
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]
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)
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.
The central bureaucracy of imperial Rome remained in Rome in the sixth century but was replaced in the rest of the empire by German tribal organization and the church. [79]: 67 After the fall of Rome (476) most of the west returned to a subsistence agrarian form of life. What little security there was in this world was largely provided by the ...
India Early Sangha Early Buddhist schools Mahāyāna Vajrayāna Sri Lanka & Southeast Asia Theravāda Tibetan Buddhism Nyingma Kadam Kagyu Dagpo Sakya Jonang East Asia Early Buddhist schools and Mahāyāna (via the silk road to China, and ocean contact from India to Vietnam) Tangmi Nara (Rokushū) Shingon Chan Thiền, Seon Zen Tiantai / Jìngtǔ Tendai Nichiren Jōdo-shū Central Asia & Tarim ...
Christianity in the 18th century – 1st great awakening, revivalism, America, French Revolution; Christianity in the 19th century – Modernism, 2nd great awakening, Oxford movement, 1st Vatican Council; Christianity in the 20th century – Soviet Union, Third Reich, Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Fundamentalism, 2nd Vatican Council
6th-century Buddhism (2 C, 3 P) 6th-century religious buildings and structures (12 C, 9 P) C. 6th-century Christianity (7 C, 9 P) H. 6th-century Hinduism (2 C) J.