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		<title>Why is Buddhism Different in East &amp; West? (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buddhism is not a native religion to any country. It is a religion that  adapts itself to the original religion of a people. When a nation has  many Buddhists, Buddhism  becomes superimposed on the foundational  beliefs of that country, but the foundation remains the same. Once we  understand this, we will understand why Western Buddhists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Why is Buddhism Different in East &amp; West? Who is the God of All Nations? (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(continued from previous blog&#8230;)
Although some Western intellectuals today seem unaware of it,  Christianity is the foundation of the greatness of the West. Ancient Europe was steeped in barbarism and paganism until the revelation of Judeo-Christian values. The greatest advances in Western  justice, education, prosperity, and scientific discovery are almost  unanimously connected to a Christian, whether [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=152</link>
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		<title>Western Monk Attacks Christianity (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I have come to realize that there are two forms of Buddhism that Christians have to face. One is the aggressive, overtly anti-Christian, Western version, promoted by Western converts and their Western-educated followers. The other is the conservative, respectful, Eastern version, lived day-to-day by the Asians who grew up with Buddhism. This latter form of Buddhism is the one I have written about in my book From Buddha to Jesus: An Insider’s View of Buddhism &#038; Christianity.

Since the book’s release, numerous responses have come from both Buddhists and Christians who interact with Buddhists, telling us how relevant the material is to them. Their comments are posted at our website for all to see: www.BuddhaBook.org. As I suggest in my book, most native Buddhists are very respectful and actually like Christians.

But this is not necessarily the case with Western converts to Buddhism. They are neo-atheists with no respect for Christians, Jews or anyone who believes in God. The good news is most Buddhists are not like them and do not follow them. Hostility is very unbecoming of a true Buddhist, especially a monk.

I read the Australian-born monk Shravasti Dhammika’s Good Question Good Answer half a year ago. Though I saw its fatal flaws, I thought not to respond to it. People have a right to their opinions and we should respect their point of view if they are sincere. I wanted to grant Dhammika the benefit of the doubt, until I recently was told that Dhammika posted a defamatory attack on Christianity, myself and my book From Buddha to Jesus: An Insider’s View of Buddhism &#038; Christianity. ]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Dhammika’s Comments on Science (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On page 10 of his book Good Question Good Answer, Dhammika claims, “Buddhism… is certainly (sic) more scientific than any other religion.”
Yet it is interesting that many of the patriarchs of science were Christian: British physicist Sir Isaac Newton (father of Calculus – he loved the Bible more than physics), German astronomer Johannes Kepler, French [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Dhammika’s Comments on Christianity (Part 3)</title>
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Let’s proceed to Dhammika’s interpretation of Christianity.
On page 4 of his book Good Question Good Answer, he writes: “In Christianity, the fish is used to symbolise Christ’s presence…” (P. 4). Used by whom? This is found nowhere in the Bible, except in one reference to Jesus calling Simon and Andrew to become “fishers of men” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Dhammika’s Comments on Buddhism (Part 4)</title>
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Let’s proceed to Dhammika’s Western knowledge of Buddhism. Dhammika generalizes about Thai people, “Like many Thais, Cioccolanti labors under the conceit that what&#8217;s done in Thailand is Buddhism.” He calls Thais’ beliefs about Buddhism conceited despite the fact that Thailand represents the largest practicing Buddhist country in Southeast Asia – both by percentage (95%) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=35</link>
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		<title>Are You a Good Buddhist?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Of course, nearly everybody thinks they are a good person. Buddha gave a short test, perhaps more like a self-assessment, to measure how good you really are. Please answer the following 5 questions truthfully:    


Have you ever killed a mosquito,      cockroach, rat, ant, termite or eaten any meat?
Have you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=81</link>
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		<title>What is Karma?</title>
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There is effectively little difference, in normal parlance, between the Buddhist word &#8220;karma&#8221; and the Christian word &#8220;sin&#8221;. Karma is always followed by revenge, curses, and suffering. Sin is always followed by suffering and death. “The wages of sin is death.” “The soul that sins it shall die.” When a Buddhist dies, in Thai Buddhists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Are You Reincarnated?</title>
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Many people sense that they have been reincarnated and some even claim they have memory of past lives. While these memories may seem very vivid and real to the claimants, there are a few logical problems that must be answered to validate these claims.
Firstly, how many people were Napoleon or Shakespeare in the past? There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=76</link>
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		<title>Why Does the West Reject Buddhism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clearly certain aspects of Buddhism has become increasingly popular among some Westerners. However, Buddhism has never taken hold in any Western country and probably never will because it is a religion that provides no answers to the basic questions most Westerners are asking: the origin of the universe, the purpose of life, the final destiny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buddhabook.org/bookblog/?p=72</link>
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