All cross-cultural understanding, however, is founded on a dialogue of 'parallels', and this is a genuine attempt. Being what they are, these articles are interesting as an example of how far people are willing to go to see what they want to see, and of the tendency for a liberal 'religious dialogue' to become the co-opting of one tradition by another. While none of these interpretations/translations may be outright 'wrong', they do, taken as a whole and with the weight of two thousand years of Christian tradition, create the impression that Buddhism is actually a sort of crypto-Christianity, an interpretation which goes against the grain of nearly all Buddist scholarship, secular and religious, eastern and western, modern and Victorian.
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(See the second section of the third series.) There are also clues to the influence of 'spiritualism' on Edmunds interpretations see his explanation of the phrase "diffuse his Benevolence" by "projection of affectionate thought-waves toward all creatures." (See the fourth section of the third series.) (See the fourth section of the second series.) He also uses the word 'angels' where others translate 'god' in a further effort to remake the polytheism of ancient India. He uses the word God to translate Brahmâ throughout, and even uses 'Kingdom of God' to translate the phrase that others render 'Brahmâ-world'. (I hope to be able to provide some of his later work in the future.)Įdmunds was a convinced Protestant, and although he was of the 'liberal' stripe, his translations are highly suspect due to his overwhelming desire to show parallels. Although he strenuously denies that this is his object in the prefatory note, he went on to develop that thesis at much greater length after these articles were published. Edmunds in support of his thesis that the early Christian movement grew at least partially out of the influence of Buddhist missionaries on the religious thought of the Levant.
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#GOSPEL PARALLELS SERIES#
These files are transcriptions of a series of articles written by Albert J. Index of articles Table of Sources First article Gospel Parallels from Pâli Texts - Index Sacred Texts Journals Buddhist Articles