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Kabul Museum. Mosaic of early missionary to the East St. Francis Xavier. The history of Buddhism goes back to what is now Bodh Gaya, India almost six centuries before Christianity, making it one of the oldest religions still being practiced. [11] The origins of Christianity go back to Roman Judea in the early first century.
Search For The Historical Jesus. Down-to-Earth Books, 2006. ISBN 1-878115-17-0; Tricia McCannon. Jesus: The Explosive Story of the 30 Lost Years and the Ancient Mystery Religions. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 2010. ISBN 978-1-57174-607-8. Charles Potter. Lost Years of Jesus Revealed., Fawcett, 1985. ISBN 0-449 ...
Maitreya (Sanskrit) or Metteyya (Pali), is a bodhisattva who is regarded as the future Buddha of this world in all schools of Buddhism, prophesied to become Maitreya Buddha or Metteyya Buddha. [ 2 ][ 3 ] In some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, he is also referred to as Ajitā (Invincible, Unconquerable).
Buddhist influences on Christianity. A Greco-Buddhist statue of Siddartha Gautama (Buddha) preaching. The Greeks are believed to have introduced the practice of figural representations of the Buddha. (See Greco-Buddhist art.) Buddhism was known in the pre- Christian Greek world through the campaigns of Alexander the Great (see Greco-Buddhism ...
Siddhartha Gautama, [ e ] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit.'the awakened one'), [ 4 ][ f ][ g ] was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia, [ h ] during the 6th or 5th century BCE [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ][ c ] and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, [ b ...
Some high level Buddhists have drawn analogies between Jesus and Buddhism, e.g. in 2001 the Dalai Lama stated that "Jesus Christ also lived previous lives", and added that "So, you see, he reached a high state, either as a Bodhisattva, or an enlightened person, through Buddhist practice or something like that." [17]
Kings of Sri Lanka were often described as bodhisattvas, starting at least as early as Sirisanghabodhi (r. 247–249), who was renowned for his compassion, took vows for the welfare of the citizens, and was regarded as a mahāsatta (Sanskrit: mahāsattva), an epithet used almost exclusively in Mahayana Buddhism. [ 39 ]
Jesus[ d ] (c.6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, [ e ]Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. [ 10 ] He is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion.