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East Meets West: The Uncanny Parallels in the Lives of Buddha and Jesus

Part I

By Ray Riegert

I. For more than 1,800 years, the mirrorlike natures of the Buddha and Jesus remained buried in the ancient texts of each religion. Then scholars examining these holy books began to detect remarkable patterns.

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The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism state that life is full of suffering, that the cause of our suffering is “grasping,” that the solution to suffering is to let go of grasping, and that the Eightfold Path, a practical guide for living, teaches us how to let go of our grasping.