Download The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten
Locate the key to enhance the lifestyle by reading this The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten This is a sort of book that you need now. Besides, it can be your favorite book to check out after having this book The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten Do you ask why? Well, The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten is a book that has various particular with others. You could not have to understand that the author is, exactly how famous the job is. As sensible word, never judge the words from which speaks, but make the words as your inexpensive to your life.
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten
Download The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten
Make use of the innovative modern technology that human creates now to find guide The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten conveniently. Yet first, we will ask you, just how much do you love to read a book The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten Does it always up until finish? For what does that book check out? Well, if you actually enjoy reading, aim to check out the The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten as one of your reading collection. If you only reviewed guide based upon need at the time and incomplete, you should aim to such as reading The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten initially.
When visiting take the encounter or thoughts kinds others, publication The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten can be an excellent source. It's true. You could read this The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten as the source that can be downloaded and install right here. The means to download and install is also simple. You could see the link web page that we offer and after that acquire the book to make a bargain. Download and install The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten and also you can put aside in your very own device.
Downloading and install guide The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten in this internet site lists could give you much more benefits. It will certainly reveal you the most effective book collections as well as finished compilations. Numerous books can be discovered in this internet site. So, this is not just this The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten Nonetheless, this publication is referred to check out since it is an impressive publication to give you much more chance to get experiences as well as thoughts. This is simple, check out the soft data of the book The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten and also you get it.
Your perception of this book The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten will certainly lead you to get what you specifically need. As one of the impressive books, this publication will certainly provide the presence of this leaded The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten to collect. Also it is juts soft documents; it can be your cumulative data in gizmo and various other gadget. The essential is that usage this soft documents book The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten to review as well as take the perks. It is just what we mean as book The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources Of Christianity, By Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten will improve your ideas and also mind. Then, checking out publication will also enhance your life quality a lot better by taking excellent activity in well balanced.
, 274 pages, bibliography, index
- Sales Rank: #1727755 in Books
- Published on: 1995-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.10" h x 6.41" w x 9.50" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 274 pages
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Most helpful customer reviews
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
An alternative view of the origins of Christianity
By Sandra Bergstedt
This book helps explain the differences between the Old and New Testament philosophies. I do not care to elaborate any further.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
The influence of Buddhist scriptures on Gospels, Acts and Epistles
By Rama Rao
The authors provide an historical and scriptural evidence to show that a significant part of New Testament was influenced by the Buddhist literature and the Acts of Buddha. This book focuses on sacred text and does not deal directly with the facts that Jesus' spent several years in Kashmir, India, when it was under the influence of Buddhist and Jain teachings. The flow of Buddhist thought occurred at three main levels, the Buddhist missionaries carrying the message of Buddha into Egypt, Syria and Palestine are well documented in the history, especially during and after Emperor Asoka. Strong trade relationship help bring the Vedic and Upanishadic culture into the Middle East, and finally Jesus' life in Kashmir, India brought him closer to the wisdom of Buddha and the teachings of Upanishads.
The views of Jesus presented in Sermon on the Mount directly calls to mind an inner relationship with Buddha's teachings. Both Buddha and Jesus warn their followers about false prophets. The parallels between Buddhist thought and certain New Testament stories; Jesus' parables and his sayings are not new. For example, Buddha said "whosoever sees dharma, see me." Christ in the Gospel according to John says; "He that seeth me, seeth Him that sent me" (John 12:45). The dharma is the greatest cosmic law underlying the world, corresponding to the concept of the Word, the Logos, in the Gospel which begins by declaring, "The Word was God."
The genealogical trees of Jesus point to royal origins (similar to Buddha), as described in the Gospel of Matthew. The circumstance surrounding the birth of Jesus is similar to that of Krishna of Mahabharata. There are a number of parallels to the stories of Jesus' childhood and Buddha as described in Lalitavistara, and Nidanakatha. Two famous miracles is known to be performed by Jesus was taken from Buddhists precedents; the loaves and the fishes (Mathew 14:15-21; Mark 6:35-44, and Luke 9:13-17). This originates from the introduction to Jataka 78. In this miracle, Buddha satisfied the hunger of 500 inhabitants of a monastery, and some bread remained. According to New Testament accounts Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fishes. Jesus' walking on water episode described in Mark 6:52 and its similarities with Buddha walking on water is striking. Many similarities in these two stories are listed by theologian Norbert Klatt. The Buddhist scriptures of Dighanikaya and the Majjhimanikaya describes Buddha walking on water and in Mahavamsa, Buddha crosses the Ganges. In an episode described in Mahavagga, Buddha's disciple, Kassapa sees Buddha walking on water, fearful about Buddha, Kassapa asks, "Are you there, great mendicant monk?" "It is I, Kassapa" Buddha replied, calming him down. Jesus' disciples also feared that they saw a ghost after seeing Jesus walking on water, to them Jesus replies, "It is I" (Mark 6:50 and John 6:20). In Matthew 14:28-33, Apostle Peter also tries to walk on the water but starts to sink. This episode is surprisingly similar to the introduction to Jataka 190, where Sariputta, a disciple of Buddha attempts to walk on water of river Aciravati and begins to sink by a strong wave. When he regains control of himself and start meditating deeply, he could walk on water.
Buddha always treated everyone equally irrespective of their caste or social status. Jesus was equal in this respect. In one episode, Buddha draws anger of upper class followers when he accepts a courtesan's invitation for a dinner. Jesus also made similar gestures and goodwill by accommodating less fortunate and oppressed people in the society. Another story that is illuminating is the story of Ananda and Prakriti and its similarities to Jesus in John 4:5-42. While travelling through the countryside, Ananda, the disciple of Buddha feels thirsty and approaches a well and ask a Matangi girl named Prakriti for a drink of water. When she expresses fear that she belongs to a lower caste and she can not approach a holy man, Ananda responds, "my sister, I am not asking about your caste or your family; I am asking whether you can give some water to drink" (Divyavadana 217). This story is similar to Jesus' encounter at Jacob's well near Sychar in Samaria where he asks for some drinking water. The woman of Samaria replies, "How is that thou, being a Jew, asking drink from me, a woman of Samaria." Jesus says, if she knew who he was, she would ask him for a drink and he would give her "living water" (John 4:5-42). In his instruction to his disciples, Jesus says, "in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matthew 25:40). This is similar to Buddha's instructions, "anyone, O monks, who want to stand by me, should stand by the afflicted" (Mahavagga 8, 26.3)
Jesus first public appearance has many similarities with that of Buddha. After leaving his palace, Siddhartha sought teachers and join Rudraka the Brahmin. When young Siddhartha realizes that his teachings would not lead to liberation and insight; he decides go into wilderness in order to attain realization through strict asceticism. Five of Rudraka's followers join him but when Siddhartha gives up fasting and ascetic excesses realizing that would not lead him into his objective: His followers leave him thinking that he has given up search for redemption. Jesus also becomes the disciple of John the Baptist, a strict ascetic and penitent of his time. He gets baptized and then goes into wilderness and fasts; some of the disciples of John the Baptist follow him. Soon Jesus also gives up ascetic excesses. "John came neither eating nor drinking.....The son of man came eating and drinking..." (Matthew 11:18-19). Jesus' radical view included rejection of baptism and John's strict asceticism; instead he preached love, tolerance and harmony like Buddha and won many followers.
The influence of Upanishads and Vedanta also had some impact on epistles. Jesus expresses the idea of the unity of Atman and Brahman in the words; "I and Father are One" (John 10:30). The evangelist John also viewed everyone as god's equal; "I said, ye are gods" (John 10:34).
1. The Fifth Gospel: New Evidence from the Tibetan, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and Urdu Sources About the Historical Life of Jesus Christ After the Crucifixion
2. Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
3. The Jesus Conspiracy: The Turin Shroud and the Truth About Resurrection
4. Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings
5. Buddha and Jesus:: Could Solomon Be the Missing Link?
6. Without Buddha I Could Not Be A Christian
7. Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings
8. From Buddha to Jesus: An Insider's View of Buddhism and Christianity
7 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
GOOD RESEACH MISSAPPLIED WITH PARTIALITY
By A Customer
Although the scholarly research in this work is laudable, the authors seem to have been caught up in a couple of prejedicial problems. The first one deals with attempting to give many parallels for the New testamant from Hindu sources, while largely avoiding the word "Hinduism" by simply and repeatedly calling them "Indian Sources". And in the same vein, although Lord Krishna's name was mentioned once (as some ancient god),very unscholarly. The Gita, oneof the world's greatest scriptues, and no doubt known to theBuddha, would weigh heavily in this subject.But was it mentioned or did I miss it? Krishna's name was also omitted from the "people" list at the back of the book. I believe the ancient records indicate that Jesus would have had more than sufficient experience with the great Hindu Yogis during his lengthy India visit, this would be the real source of many comparisons the authors' use, and very little data found its way into the NT from influences of Buddhistic origins of the Middle East. JESUS, like so many others through ancient history, well knew about the GREAT YOGIS of INDIA (Pythagoras and Appolonious etc), and when they made such a long treck, would not stop at only other schools along the way, they usually sought out the most prominent Masters and Yogis, as well as the original sources of the VEDAS,UPANISHADS,GITA ETC. No doubt they would encounter others as well, but the slant these authors give this whole subject, is remeniscent of the same onesided approached indulged in by many of those in the early church establishment. FINALLY, one can surely find certain major problems in the holy writ of any of the great religions - the least of which is translation to another language. But history has shown that even in works that may be less than perfect, the power and influence of that illusive original Jesus, has produced many Christlike beings, eg. Padre Pio of Italy. And surely effected the lives of untold millions, I doubt that one of JESUS strong concepts, ! that of the personal "Heavenly Father", came from Buddhist influence, as they seem to follow a concept of the universal impersonal mind only. The mentions of other such matters as reincarnation are clearly from Hindu Origins.
See all 10 customer reviews...
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten PDF
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten EPub
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten Doc
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten iBooks
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten rtf
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten Mobipocket
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten Kindle
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten PDF
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten PDF
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten PDF
The Original Jesus: The Buddhist Sources of Christianity, by Elmar R. Gruber, Holger Kersten PDF
