[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Buddha and Christ

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 26, 2009

BUDDHA AND CHRIST

Student: What is the relationship between the Buddha and the Christ?

Chogyam Trungpa: I suppose, from the mahayana point of view of 
benevolence and the point of view of sainthood, that they are like 
saints talking to each other. Their relationship might be that of 
wakeful saints coming from different traditions. One, Christ, came 
from the Jewish tradition, and one, the Buddha, came from the Hindu 
tradition. Both were stepping out of their traditions and beginning 
to teach a new kind of truth, or an old truth in a new way. In some 
sense, what they were doing was very close.

 From Talk Four of "Jamgon Kongtrul," an unpublished seminar, Karme 
Choling, Vermont, April 1975.

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