[Buddha-l] Re: Jesus is Buddha?

[Stanley J. Ziobro II]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, STEPHEN BAMBER wrote:

> Warm greetings from Liverpool UK,
>
> Interestingly, in 'A John Hick Reader' (Badham, P., [ed.], Macmillan,
> London, 1990: 108)
>
> "Thus Gautama was the dharma made flesh, as Jesus was the word made
> flesh: indeed the Burmese translation of the New Testament treats the
> Dharma as the equivalent of Logos, so that the opening sentence of St.
> John's gospel reads
>
> 'In the beginning was the Dharma....'"
>
>
> Hick references this:
>
> J.O.Percy (ed.),'Facing the Unfinished Task: Messages delivered at the
> congress on World Mission' Eerdman, Grand Rapids, 1961: 9

Thank you, Stephen.  John Wu last mid-century translated Logos as Tao.
Thomas Merton found this a rich association.

Stan Ziobro