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[27] Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh affirmed core Christian beliefs such as the trinity, and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in his book Living Buddha, Living Christ. Bokin Kim, similarly, sees Christ as the Buddha Dharmakaya , and Jesus as similar to Gautama who was just a historical manifestation of the transhistorical ...
[4] [6] Although Mahayana Buddhism expresses belief in Bodhisattva, this is very different from the notion of Creator God in Christianity. [6] [27] While some variations of Buddhism believe in an impersonal eternal Buddha or creative force, in general Buddhism sees the universe as eternal and without a starting point of creation. [28] [29]
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 Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche in 1992, is a presentation of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead or Bardo Thodol. The author wrote, "I have written The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying as the quintessence of the heart-advice of all my masters, to be a new Tibetan Book of the ...
[2] [3] Later Buddhism expanded the bardo concept to six or more states of consciousness covering every stage of life and death. [4] In Tibetan Buddhism, bardo is the central theme of the Bardo Thodol (literally Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State), the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text intended to both guide the recently ...
One set of Tibetan Buddhist contemplations on death come from the eleventh century Buddhist scholar Atisha. [7] Atisha is said to have said to his students that if a person is unaware of death, their meditation will have little power. [8] Atisha's contemplations on death: Death is inevitable. Our life span is decreasing continuously.
The death of a noble lady and the decay of her body is a series of kusōzu paintings in watercolor, produced in Japan around the 18th century. The subject of the paintings is thought to be Ono no Komachi. [18] There are nine paintings, including a pre-death portrait, and a final painting of a memorial structure: [18] [19]
In the Vajrayana tradition [1] of Tibetan Buddhism, tukdam (Standard Tibetan: ཐུགས་དམ, Wylie: thugs dam) is a meditative state said to occur after clinical death in which the body reportedly shows minimal signs of decomposition, retaining a lifelike appearance for days or even weeks.