What is Zen Buddhism and how is it different from Christianty and Islam and Buddhism?
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A key difference between, on one hand, the original Buddhism taught by the Buddha and also Zen, and, on the other hand, all of the other World Religions (Hinduism and the Abrahamic Faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) is that the central dynamic of the religion is the elimination of suffering through the human
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Analogies have been drawn between Buddhism and Christianity and Buddhism may have influenced early Christianity.[1] Buddhist missionaries were sent by Emperor Ashoka of India to Syria, Egypt and Greece beginning in 250 BCE and may have helped prepare for the ethics of Christ.[2] Others have noted the significant differences between the two religions beginning with monotheism's place at the core of Christianity, and Buddhism's orientation towards non-theism (the lack of relevancy of the existence of a creator deity) which runs counter to teachings about God in Christianity; and extending to the importance of grace in Christianity against the rejection of interference with karma in Theravada Buddhism, etc.[3][4][5]
Some early Christians were aware of Buddhism which was practiced in both the Greek and Roman Empires in the pre-Christian period. The majority of modern Christian scholarship has rejected any historical basis for the travels of Jesus to India or Tibet and has seen the attempts at parallel symbolism as cases of parallelomania which exaggerate resemblances.[6][7][8][9] However, in the East syncretism between Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism was widespread along the Silk Road in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and was especially pronounced in the medieval Church of the East in China, as evidenced by the Jesus Sutras.[10]
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