[Buddha-l] the nestorian stele of chang'an

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 12:00, curt at cola.iges.org wrote:

> A significant
> insight in this context is that many of the Chinese concepts used in the
> stele to explain Christian teaching are not originally Christian, but were
> previously related to other religions, including Buddhism and
> Zoroastrianism."

I suppose we could add that many of the Chinese concepts used to explain 
Buddhist teaching are not originally Buddhist but were previously related to 
Confucianism and Daoism. Those Chinese couldn't seem to get anything 
straight. I suspect a preincarnation of Stephen Batchelor may have been 
behind both Chinese Christianity and Chinese Buddhism.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico