Early Christianity’s Influence on Buddhism

by Dr. Samuel Larsen

The encounter between Christianity and the great religions of Asia is ancient and complex, especially the relationship between Christianity and Buddhism.

The article which follows outlines the case for an early encounter between two religious systems which, in turn, may have helped to precipitate the great division in Buddhism between what is generally considered to be the older form of Buddhism, Theravada, and the newer Mahayana branch, which today claims upwards of eighty per cent of the world’s Buddhists.

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