MarMema: Thank you very much, Mama Fred.
sanormal: Exactly.
There is no God in Buddhism. Any belief in God or concept of God is an illusion that must be renounced. This is quite different from a religion that not only believes in a God but God as Holy Trinity. Buddhism also posits only the great Void--nothingness--as the basis of reality. This again is quite different from an apophatic theology that makes a distinction between the essence of God and the energies of God.
And then there is the question of the body and personal existence. A Buhhhist must renounce the body. It has no real existence. Neither does personal existence or the world of sense, since personal identity and all material existence must be absorbed into the grand nothingness at the center of the Universe. Once again, this is quite different from an ascetical struggle for the sake of the salvation and resurrection of the body along with whole man--and the transformation of the Cosmos at the end of time in the eschaton.
So perhaps you could explain the similarities between Orthodoxy and Buddhism, because the author of the article doesn't explain the analogy--there is only an assertion.
I think probably it is the approach, and not the faith itself, which she is using to make the comparison.
Perhaps the point was that, institutionally, Eastern Orthodoxy looks more like a movement and less like an institution. This is precisely what attracts many Protestants to Eastern Orthodoxy, as it is similar, in this one respect, to most Protestant communities.
It is also the frequent criticism of Catholics.