Ven. Shravasti Dhammika has written a book review of From Buddha to Jesus an Insiders view of Christianity and Buddhism.
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Apparently the author of that book takes a very critical and ignorant view of Buddhism to writing. Fortunately, Ven. Dhammika wrote that great review to counter it.
Ven. Dhammika's review of Buddha to Jesus
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Thanks TheDhamma for pointing that out. The attitude that missionary Christians have in Asia is scary...
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If you think his review is good then it would behoove you to mark it as helpful so others will be inclined to read it.
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I disagree. Ven Dhammika's review is very poor — it is far too long for a start. To be frank, it is hardly any better than a rant. Not that the book doesn't deserve to be criticised, but if it is so bad I wonder why Ven Dhammika even bothered?
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I agree that it is much too long, and will probably have little impact on Christian readers. Perhaps an "exective summary" would have been helpful...
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I agree that it is much too long, and will probably have little impact on Christian readers. Perhaps an "exective summary" would have been helpful...
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Agreed on the length, I skimmed the second half of it. I thought he demonstrated how the author didn't know what he was talking about quite well. I'm sure it won't make much difference to the Christians, but at least non-biased readers won't be led astray if they read that review.
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For a similarly amusing evangelical Christian distortion of Buddhism, see Crosswalk.com's article, Share Your Faith With Buddhists.TheDhamma wrote:Ven. Shravasti Dhammika has written a book review of From Buddha to Jesus an Insiders view of Christianity and Buddhism.
Reviews, From Buddha to Jesus
Apparently the author of that book takes a very critical and ignorant view of Buddhism to writing. Fortunately, Ven. Dhammika wrote that great review to counter it.
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I was thinking that myself. That is, I was thinking: Ven. Dhammika may have actually brought this book more attention than it deserves by providing his critique, giving it some semblance of value. Buddhist monks don't bother critiquing Scientologists' remarks about Buddhism, for example.Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:I disagree. Ven Dhammika's review is very poor — it is far too long for a start. To be frank, it is hardly any better than a rant. Not that the book doesn't deserve to be criticised, but if it is so bad I wonder why Ven Dhammika even bothered?
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I saw a book on scibed? which initially I though was interesting but then realised it was a handbook of how to convert Buddhists I'll look about for it post here as it seem relevant to this threadmikenz66 wrote:Thanks TheDhamma for pointing that out. The attitude that missionary Christians have in Asia is scary...
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that is the longest review ever....
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Yes, it is pretty long. Four out of four people have marked it as a good review or at least 'helpful.' Excellent.
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Cioccolanti has created a series of pages attacking Dhammika:
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