Camparing Christianity and Buddhism

The purpose of this paper is to simply compare the important elements of Christian world view and Buddhist world view related to God's concept, soul, suffering and their religious concepts. The concept of God makes it possible to see God's idea first. According to Christian religion, God is holy, omnipotent, omnipotent, omnipotent, and this man is built in his image. Christian 's approach is that human beings are created by outside gods, and the purpose of Christian life is to be with God.

One important factor is that Christianity is its central monotheism and creator largely affects God, but Buddhism is usually non-theoretical and refuses to offer sacred values ​​to the Creator is. For the conceptual world of God. Nice creed, the most widely used belief in Christians, says, "We believe in God, Almighty father, Creator of the heavens and the earth, and visible and invisible things." doing. But the concept of theology creation is often unfamiliar with Buddhist thought and the issue of existence of God may be one of the most fundamental obstacles between Christianity and Buddhism. Mahayana Buddhism expresses that belief for the status of saints of Bodhisattva, but it is quite different from the concept of the god of the Creator in Christianity.

Buddhism is centered on the lifetime and teaching of Gautama Buddha, Christianity is centered on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Buddhism is a non-traditional religion. I do not believe that the best creator is God. Christianity is monotheism, believing that Christ is the Son of God. In this article of the New York Times, Jay L. Garfield is Professor Kwan Im Tone Hood Chaw of the Humanities Department of the National University of Singapore at Ayr of Singapore. The question of how philosophy attracts attention is different from the philosophy of religion of Abraham such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam.

Buddhism is a religion or philosophy that follows the teachings of Buddha called Siddhartha Gautama, living between 566 BC and 483 BC. Buddhism is the world's fourth largest religion, following Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam (Bechert & Gombrich, 1984). Believers in this religion are known as Buddhists. Because Buddhism does not worship the Creator God, it is not considered a religion in its usual sense. It is seen as a clear path of practice and spiritual development that provides insight into the essence of human life. Buddhism has its own custom like meditation, which is a way to change yourself and acquire valuable qualities such as wisdom, consciousness, kindness (Bechert & Gombrich, 1984)