May Peace Prevail among Believers!
Mahayana (greater vehicle) Buddhism was started to develop around the same time when our Lord Jesus Christ started His mission on the earth. So, it is thought that there is some linkage between Buddhism and Christianity, since some early Christians moved, after the collapse of the Jerusalem Temple in the war with the Roman Empire, to Syria and Persia under some influence from the original Buddhism established some 500 years ago by the Buddha.In the history, it is well known that a sect of Christianity reached the Tang dynasty of China (618-907) while many monks came from Japan to Tang to learn Buddhism. It is also believed that one of the 12 Disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ reached India. Indeed, there seems to be some influence of original Buddhism in Christianity and influence of Christianity in Mahayana Buddhism.
Especially Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism launched by Kukai (774-835) who went to Tang to learn Tantric Buddhism seems to have been influenced by a sect of Christianity that was then accepted in Tang. Indeed, Shingon means the true words.
Anyway, religions in the world handling human death and the spirit world should be connected to one another. So, Judaism and Islam should be connected in the spirit world. We have to pray and hope that the current war in Gaza will be immediately stopped. Indeed, believers of Judaism and those of Islam should not fight in the sprit world. May peace prevail among believers of any religions!
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John 12, King James Version
9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.