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The objectives of Buddhism

Christianity and Buddhism was a religion of salvation. They are the same as or different ways to it. Nowhere Buddhism, when dealing with other religions, is not responsible for the scourge of evil, although seen everywhere hate you. One ancient Christian repudiation formula reads: «cursed Zaradesa, and Boddu Skitiana, predecessors maniheev». Zarades – it Zoroaster, Bodda – Buddha. Ecumenical missionary Spence Hardy, to whom we owe a very valuable works on Buddhism, otdelyvaetsya of clear similarities between Christianity and Buddhism in such a point: the life of the Buddha – a myth, his teachings – mass confusion, it is not a code of morals, his religion is based on the situation without foundation . Even sharper is Jesuit Dalman. He argues that the main message of Buddhism is limited to the deep religious and social immorality. But just the opposite is true. Hatred Delmana to Buddhism because he sees it Protestantism India, which is wrong.
With the exception of individual entries, all Christian missionaries, came into contact with Buddhism, agree that the ethics of Buddhism took place immediately after the ethics of Christianity. Like Christ, Buddha otrinul any external piety and placed at the head of its moral teachings to work on yourself and love of neighbor. His commandments and instructions, if you do not pay attention to the specific Indian and applicable only to India, essentially the same as that of the Christ. Both the founder of religion does not apply to individual classes, but to the broad mass of suffering and encumbered. Any one-sided condemnation of Buddhism from a Christian perspective must necessarily be wrong. How about any other religion, it must be judged by people in an environment where it arose, and under the terms of the time at which he appeared. Until recently, the misfortune of Buddhism was that they were mostly laity, meryavshie his false scale, because they were not aware of the conditions it caused. Since Shopengauer with honest surprise confessed that his doctrine is largely converge with Buddhism and that of all earthly religions, it is inclined to accept an advantage for the latter, Buddhism began to enter more and more in vogue. Some have tried to celebrate at his expense, Christians and others, on the contrary, to humiliate him in front of the teachings of Christ, there is no shortage in Europe and in the people, who see in the future of Buddhism religion. They forget that Buddhism is transferred to Europe, ceases to be Buddhism. Atheism and pessimism – this nickname, which want to characterize it. In the time of this Shopengauera Buddhism almost anything is not yet known.
In the Buddhist Church of confronting one another, two lines, which in many respects, can be equated to Catholicism and Protestantism. Already early Buddhism split into sects. Buddha himself had to deal with differences in their community, and largely be attributed to these strife that Buddhism in India as soon came to decline. Some sects of their own canon of scriptures in various languages. According to doubt the loyalty of which there is no reason, soon after the death of the Buddha, one of the most famous of his students suggested Kashyapa monks gathered in Kushinagare make canon law (dharma) and discipline (vinaya). This was performed at the cathedral in Radzhagrihe, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Magadha, the current Tirhute in eastern India, the homeland of Buddha. This first edition of the Buddhist canon was followed, of course, the language of the country Magadha, on magadhi, which preached the Buddha himself. The oldest monument of the language represents an inscription on the receptacle to the relics, which was found in the tomb of the Buddha and put it the family of teachers. The choice of this particular dialect house Buddha proves that he was the native language of the Buddha. This explains also why Buddhists believe magadhi the main language spoken by people the world’s first century, Brahma, not previously heard another voice, as well as the Buddha. From this ancient canon-magadhi have survived only the names of its individual parts, preserved in Bayratskom edikte cut in the III century before Stor. on the stone, according to the commandment of the great Buddhist king Ashoki Priyadarshina, and also some traces of the only still surviving canon of so-called southern Buddhists.
Typically, the southern Buddhists differ from the northern. Under the southern mean Buddhists of Ceylon and Indochina, namely Siam, Burma, Annama, Cambodia, under the northern-Buddhists in China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Mongolia and the countries on the slopes of the Himalayas, particularly in Nepal, Bhutane, Sikkim. The number of southern Buddhist determined in 31 million, the North – in 479 million. Overall, therefore, Buddhist 510 million people, who oppose the 340 million Christians. Counting this, however, may not be quite true, as well as with respect to China and Tibet there is no accurate data.

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Сентябрь 2010
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