[OneVike]

I need to correct my glaring mistake of claiming that Buddha may have been influenced by a Christian traveler.

I looked over the information I have and realized my glaring error in that Buddha lived some 500 years or so before God entered the world as the incarnate Christ.

He was more likely influenced by a Jewish traveler or even a Jewish slave maybe.

Now you all will inevitably hear and read about the Jewish and Christian religions being influenced by Buddha. However, the very idea is laughable since God gave Moses the law some 800 years before Buddha was born. So it would be impossible for him to influence the Jewish religion that existed for hundreds of years already.

In fact if the information gleaned from a copy of Buddhist Scriptures, belonging to the leading Buddhist teacher of ChiangMai Province in Thailand, is correct then it would seem that Buddha may have even believed that a Holy One would be born one day that would be the savior of mankind.(image from book below)

Buddha Prophesized about Jesus (Yeshua)

It is also the understanding of some that Buddha's understanding of the Holy One was influenced by Jewish teachings.

At that, I will leave it and allow you all to do your own investigation into the matter.

[Elsie]

He was more likely influenced by a Jewish traveler or even a Jewish slave maybe.

I'd give credit to the Tower of Babel.

They all KNEW the Story; just re-told it in different languages.

[Kevmo]

In fact if the information gleaned from a copy of Buddhist Scriptures, belonging to the leading Buddhist teacher of ChiangMai Province in Thailand, is correct then it would seem that Buddha may have even believed that a Holy One would be born one day that would be the savior of mankind.(image from book below)
***Perhaps, like for the old testament prophets & jews, it will be accounted to him as righteousness that he believed. He would have been a christian...