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and thus sharpened an evil weapon against mankind. So Cubricus, the vile slave, grew up in the midst of philosophers, and on the death of the widow inherited both the books and the money. Then, lest the name of slavery might be a reproach, instead of Cubricus he called himself Manes, which in the language of the Persians signifies discourse. For as he thought himself something of a disputant, he surnamed himself Manes, as it were an excellent master of discourse. But though he contrived for himself an honourable title according to the language of the Persians, yet the providence of God caused him to become a self-accuser even against his will, that through thinking to honour himself in Persia, he might proclaim himself among the Greeks by name a maniac."
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However, he found adversaries there also in the priests of Mithras: and being confuted in the discussion of many arguments and controversies, and at last hard pressed, he took refuge with a certain widow. Then having gone up on the housetop, and summoned the daemons of the air, whom the Manichees to this day invoke over their abominable ceremony of the fig, he was smitten of God, and cast down from the housetop, and expired: and so the second beast was cut off.
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which had not the acts of Christ, but the mere name only, and one other called the book of Chapters, and a third of Mysteries, and a fourth, which they circulate now, the Treasure. This man had a disciple, Terebinthus by name. But when Scythianus purposed to come into Judaea, and make havoc of the land, the Lord smote him with a deadly disease, and stayed the pestilence.
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24. The books, however, which were the records of his impiety, remained; and both these and his money the widow inherited. And having neither kinsman nor any other friend, she determined to buy with the money a boy named Cubricus: him she adopted and educated as a son in the learning of the Persians,
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Cyril of Jerusalem, Sixth Catechetical Lecture Chapter 22-24: "22. There was in Egypt one Scythianus, a Saracen by birth, having nothing in common either with Judaism or with Christianity. This man, who dwelt at Alexandria and imitated the life of Aristotle, composed four books, one called a Gospel
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page 84 "a particular book by Nicolas Notovich (Di Lucke im Leben Jesus 1894) ... shortly after the publication of the book, the reports of travel experiences were already unmasked as lies. The fantasies about Jesus in India were also soon recognized as invention... down to today, nobody has had a
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23. But Terebinthus, his disciple in this wicked error, inherited his money and books and heresy, and came to Palestine, and becoming known and condemned in Judaea he resolved to pass into Persia: but lest he should be recognised there also by his name he changed it and called himself Buddas.
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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. Albert Schweitzer, in his
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has encouraged research into the impact of Buddhism on Gnosticism, but she holds that although intriguing, the evidence of any influence is inconclusive. She further concludes that these parallels might be coincidental since parallel traditions may emerge in different cultures.
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Other scholars such as Eddy and Boyd state that there is no evidence of a historical influence by outside sources on the authors of the New Testament, and most scholars agree that any such historical influence on Christianity is entirely implausible given that first century
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which was widely disseminated and became the basis of other theories. Notovitch's theory was controversial from the beginning and was widely criticized. Once his story had been re-examined by historians, Notovitch confessed to having fabricated the evidence.
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Modern scholarship has roundly rejected any historical basis for the travels of Jesus to India or Tibet or influences between the teachings of Christianity and Buddhism, and has seen the attempts at parallel symbolism as cases of
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This has given rise to suggestions by Zacharias P. Thundy that Buddhist tradition may have influenced Gnosticism and hence Christianity. Thundy has also considered possible influences through the Jewish sect
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Lopez, Donald S. & Rockefeller, Steven C., eds., The Christ and the Bodhisattva, State University of New York, 1987. Phan, Peter, ed., Christianity and the Wider Ecumenism, Paragon House, New York,
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Inasmuch as there is a single unified system known as Christianity,excluding the claim that the Trinity cannot be monotheistic, Christianity is traditionally viewed as being
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and was said to have conversed with the apostles and to have brought books back from his trade with India. The same author says his books and knowledge were taken over by
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Yu, Chai-shin, Early Buddhism and Christianity, A comparative Study of the Founders' Authority, the Community, and the Discipline, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1981.
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Volume 80, Issue 1 pp. 161-199 "Max MĆ¼ller suggested that either the Hemis monks had deceived Notovitch or that Notovitch himself was the author of these passages"
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has led one author to note: "It was later in this very place that some of the most active centers of Christianity were established". The early church father
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and then Christianity. Some scholars hold that the suggested similarities are coincidental since parallel traditions may emerge in different cultures.
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statue of Siddartha Gautama (Buddha) preaching. The Greeks are believed to have introduced the practice of figural representations of the Buddha. (See
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Siegmund, Georg, Buddhism and Christianity, A Preface to Dialogue, Sister Mary Frances McCarthy, trans., University of Alabama Press, 1968.
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comprised a number of small Christian sects which existed in the 2nd-5th centuries, and were rejected by mainstream Christians as
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Leaney, A.R.C., ed., A Guide to the Scrolls, Nottingham Studies on the Qumran Discoveries, SCM Book Club, Naperville, Ill., 1958.
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1. Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Part One (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935), vol. 1, p. 449.
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describes in the 3rd century his exchanges with missions of holy men from India (Greek: Ī£Ī±ĻĪ¼Ī±Ī½Ī±ĪÆĪæĪ¹, Sramanas), passing through
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Van Voorst, Robert E (2000). Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence. Eerdmans Publishing.
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are also in the number, and the other barbarian philosophers. And of these there are two classes, some of them called
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See Zacharias P. Thundy, Buddha and Christ Nativity Stories and Indian Traditions (Leiden: Brill, 1992), 244-5.
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see the centrality of crucifixion in Christianity as an irreconcilable gap between the two belief systems.
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who visited India around 50 CE, whence he brought the "doctrine of the Two Principles". Scythianus' pupil
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states that theories of influences of Buddhism on early Christianity are without historical foundation.
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of the two traditions underscore the difference in their belief structure, when the peaceful death of
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Most scholars believe there is no historical evidence of any influence by Buddhism on Christianity,
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The suggestion that an adult Jesus traveled to India and was influenced by Buddhism before starting
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suggest that there is a possibility that Buddhism influenced the early development of Christianity.
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There have also been suggestions of an indirect path in which Indian Buddhism may have influenced
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Jews would not have been open to what they would have seen as pagan stories. The Macmillan
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converted to Buddhism, and is regarded as one of the great patrons of Buddhism. (See
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have also been found in Alexandria in Egypt, decorated with depictions of the
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page 252 "one of the most widely disseminated modern forgeries is called
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supposedly presented himself as a "Buddha" ("he called himself Buddas"
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The Unknown Life Of Jesus Christ: By The Discoverer Of The Manuscript
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glimpse of the manuscripts with the alleged narratives about Jesus"
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Buddhism and Christianity
Comparison of Buddhism and Christianity

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