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Buddhism and Christianity, especially in their radicalized forms, share deep affinities. This chapter focuses on affinities shared regarding the Christian Kingdom of God and Buddhist nirvana and the Christian conception of the kenosis (emptying) of God and Buddhist sunyata (emptiness) as a fundamental characteristic of reality. This chapter pays special attention to Nagarjuna, The Threefold Lotus Sutra, Dōgen, and the Kyoto School.
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The Noble Eightfold Path, the fourth of the Four Noble Truths taught by the historical Buddha , Siddhartha Gautama, consists of the practice and cultivation of right views, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.
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The Heart Sutra, trans. Thich Nhat Hanh (2014). https://plumvillage.org/news/thich-nhat-hanh-new-heart-sutra-translation/.
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Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans, trans. E. C. Hoskyns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968).
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Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ (New York: Riverhead Books, 1995).
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Jan Willis, Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2008).
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Fyodor Ippolitovich Stcherbatsky wrote Buddhist Logic, 2 vol. (1930–1932). He was fluent not only in Russian but also in five other European languages as well as in Sanskrit. He studied in Mongolia and India and was probably the most important European scholar of Buddhist philosophy in his time.
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Altizer, T.J.J., Miller, J.E. (2018). Buddhism. In: Rodkey, C., Miller, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96595-6_33
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