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Benedict’s Dharma
By: Henry, Patrick (ed.)
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Buddhist Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict
Includes a new modern translation of Saint Benedict's Rule
Saint Benedict's Rule is a set of guidelines that has governed Christian monastic life since the sixth century. The Rule has fascinated lay people and monastics alike, including Buddhist monks and nuns who are intrigued by the similarities between their traditions and those of their Christian counterparts. Now, through personal anecdotes and thoughtful comparison, four prominent Buddhist scholars reveal how the wisdom of each tradition can revitalize the other.
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Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha
By: Harold Kasimow, John Keenan, and Linda Klepinger Keenan
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A compelling question for people of faith today is how to remain committed to one''s own religious tradition while being open to the beauty and truth of other religions. By example: Some fear that Buddhism is a threat to Western faith traditions and express grave doubts about interreligious and cross-cultural encounters. Yet, many who have actually broadened their experience profess to have developed a deeper understanding of and a deeper commitment to their tradition of origin.
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Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue
By: Masao Abe
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Part One focuses on how Buddhism approaches and contributes to interfaith dialogue, that is, how Buddhism represents a methodological model that serves as a basis for the possibility of dialogical exchange.
Part Two contains four essays on the relationship between Buddhism and Paul Tillich, the leading modern systematic theologian who drew on mystical sources and was also receptive to Eastern thought in developing his understanding of non-being or negation.
Part Three continues a discussion of earlier themes and opens up several new issues, particularly those involving the role of meditation in the East and West and the ethical implications of the Buddhist doctrine of karma in comparison with Christian moral activity. Topics explored include the Buddhist notion of emptiness, liberation, justice, faith, and ethics.
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Christianity and Buddhism, A Multicultural History of Their Dialogue
By: Whalen Lai & Michael von Bruc
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In Christianity and Buddhism Whalen Lai and Michael von Bruck bring together for scholars, students, and interested lay observers the developments and understandings reached in Christian-Buddhist dialogue in six key regions of the world. After a two-generations-long exploration by scholars and devotees, the authors judge it opportune to furnish a bird's-eye view of the terrain that dialogue has covered.
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Christianity Looks East: Comparing the Spiritualities of John of the Cross and Buddhaghosa
By: Peter Feldmeier
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This fascinating book takes a fresh look at interreligious dialogue with St. John of the Cross and Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa as representatives of Christian and Buddhist paths to liberation. As the world is increasingly experienced as a global village, dialogue with other religious traditions is widely regarded as possibly the greatest modern (or post-modern) challenge, and the distinctive journey of our time. Dialogue not only informs our understanding of various expressions of holiness, it also can inform one's own religious faith and practice. This book investigates a form of dialogue that can be a model for future dialogues. Without laying assumptions on the nature of religious experience, it allows these classic texts and their representative religions to speak for themselves. What is often lacking in this history of dialogue is its lack of appreciation for distinctive religious paths and the experiences described therein.
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Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic Between Buddhism and Christianity
By: Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal
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In Asian spiritual traditions the mountain traditionally symbolizes
meditation while the ocean signifies compassion. Jean-Yves Leloup uses
this metaphor to compare Buddhist and Christian approaches to
meditation and compassion to reveal the similarities and divergences of
these profound practices. Emphasizing their complementary nature,
Leloup describes how Jesus and Buddha are necessary to one another and
how together they form a complete system: Jesus as awakening through
love, and Buddha as awakening through meditation. Where Buddha
represents the forests, Jesus represents the trees. Buddha is brother
to the universe, whereas Jesus is brother to humanity.
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these two religious traditions have a profound common ground.
Compassion is central to Buddhism, and meditation practices have been
central to many Christian traditions. Both view murder, theft, and the
destructive use of sexuality as great barriers to realizing our
essential being, and both agree on the need to rise above them. Here,
however, Leloup suggests that both faiths could benefit from the
precepts of the other. The complementary aspects of Christianity and
Buddhism offer the possibility for a truly profound ecumenical religion
whose interfaith relations are based on deep understanding of the true
meaning and practice of meditation and compassion and not merely shared
goodwill.
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Encountering Jesus & Buddha: Their Lives and Teachings
By: Ulrich Luz & Axel Michaels
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Themes include the relative importance of Jesus and the Buddha within Christianity and Buddhism and their different perspectives on the self, the self's future, love, and ethics. They explore Jesus' and the Buddha's different notions of passion and suffering, meditation, prayer, and commitment to the world, history, and community.
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Going Home. Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Exiled from Vietnam over thirty years ago, Thich Nhat Hanh has become known as a healer of the heart, a monk who shows us how the everyday world can both enrich and endanger our spiritual lives. In Going Home he shows us the relationship between Buddha and Jesus by presenting a conversation between the two. In this unique way we learn how such concepts as resurrection and mindfulness converge.
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Living Buddha, Living Christ
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Written with the voice of the Buddha. The message: Peace, love and compassion are central to the teachings of Buddha and Christ, and people of both faiths should be tolerant of one another. Explores the spiritual crossroads where the traditions of Christianity and Buddhism meet. Awakens our understanding of both religions and the connections between them.
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Spiritual Advice for Buddhists and Christians
By: Dalai Lama
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In the words of the Dalai Lama, the purpose of religion is not to build beautiful churches and elaborate temples, but to cultivate positive human qualities such as tolerance, generosity, and love. Spiritual Advice For Buddhists and Christians contains the four talks given by the Dalai Lama when he attended a meeting of Buddhist and Christian monks at Gethsemani Abbey, Kentucky.
The Dalai Lama shares his understanding of four major themes explored in that meeting: first, the practice of prayer and meditation in the spiritual life; secondly, the stages in the process of spiritual development; thirdly, the role of the teacher and the community in the spiritual life; and, finally, the spiritual goals of personal and societal transformation.
In each talk the Dalai Lama expresses clearly and compassionately the basic principles of Tibetan Buddhism, and shows how they are applicable to daily practice for all spiritual seekers, regardless of their religious affiliation.
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Zen and the Kingdom of Heaven
By: Chetwynd, Tom
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Reflections on the Tradition of Meditation in Christianity and Zen Buddhism
In this provocative and very human work, Tom Chetwynd tells the story of how his skeptical first encounters with Zen Buddhism led him to discover the rich -- but largely forgotten -- Christian tradition of pure contemplative prayer. Chetwynd explores the surprisingly Zen-like teachings of the Desert Fathers and other Christian meditation masters whose practice stems from the very first Christian communities -- and perhaps Jesus Christ himself.
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