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• Title: What Buddhists and Christians are Teaching Each Other About God (Essay)
• Author : Cross Currents
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 71 KB

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At a time when the Judaeo-Christian conception of a personal God is coming under attack by Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins--the present-day Big Dogs of Atheism--theists would do well to pay attention to their Buddhist Brothers and sisters to see if there is any help from that quarter. Might there be a way of revisioning God in such a way that God escapes the contemptuous critique of these outraged atheists? Buddhists, on the other hand, would do well to look at a chastened theism to see if there is help from that quarter. If Buddhism has a weakness--and what religion does not?--it is in the way it regards the person: the concept of "person," said the Buddha, is a convenient fiction at best, and the source of all our woes at worst. Most people find this a little chilly. And Buddhism's most popular contemporary apologists are aware of this. Thus they experiment with a new way of rendering not only persons but Buddha Nature itself. I will try to show here that Buddhism and Christianity not only have much to teach each other about Ultimate Reality--God or Buddha Nature--but that the process of cross-fertilization is already underway. Pope John Paul II angered many Buddhists around the world when he wrote in 1995 that Buddhism is an "atheistic" system and that "the doctrines of salvation in Buddhism and Christianity are opposed."

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