Meatros

I've been reading Acharya S's website and it makes some startling claims. The problem I'm having is I can't confirm these claims. Take Buddha for example:

On the Religous Movements homepage there is no mention of a cruxifiction, but on Acharya's there is hereSakya Buddha was crucified in a sin-atonement, suffered for three days in hell, and was resurrected)

Am I missing something?

premjan

junk, is all i have to say.

religion is much easier to revise than history, being less factual to begin with.

sure, most religious figures are heavily mythologized. however, i think they are all basically factual. that's the simplest explanation anyhow.

Amos

You are missing the reality of which crucifixion is a metaphor.

The crucifixion is the final cessation of dukkha. Anagami is this final stage (I think) that ends Sotapanna. The 'in-between' here is our purgation period that ends in crucifixion ("it is finished")

Toto

There has been some previous discussion on this. Acharya S may have taken her information from Kersey Graves, a source that most people consider unreliable - see Richard Carrier's discussion.

A poster here known as hinduwoman thinks that the Christian missionaries invented the story of Buddha being crucified to show the heathens that their religion was close to theirs.

Jogyo

Looks like bunk to me. The Buddha used many metaphors and tales to describe life and the nature of life. There was never any assumption that the tales he told actually happened. Most of the Lotus Sutra is based upon the story of "The Ceremony in the Sky" where one third of the earth's surface rose into the air and Bodhisattvas emerged from the earth. Buddhist don't take these tales to be reality as christians presume the bible to be an accurate literal account of the occurances on earth. Most Buddhist also realize that Sutras were third and fourth generation accounts of what was taught by the Buddha. In Buddhism it is not the accuracy but the meaning of the story that's important.

Jogyo

Amos

That would have been Catholic missionaries because Christians don't see it that way.