Buddha Prophesied About Christ?

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Buddhist Scriptures:

"When Buddha was travelling and living in this world, there was an old Brahman priest who wore white robes who asked the Buddha, “How will all men and all Brahman continue in their merit-making so as to escape the results of sin?” The Buddha answered, “Even though all of you give alms according to the 5 precepts, the 8 precepts, the 10 precepts, or the 227 precepts for 9 trillion years and you raise your hands and offer yourselves as a burnt offering, or you pray 5 times a day, you will still not escape the results of your sins. If you do this every day, your merit gained will only be equal to the smallest strand of hair of an unborn infant extremely small. You shall not enter heaven’s doors.”

The old Brahman priest asked further, “So what should we all do?” The Buddha answered, “Keep on making merit and look for another Holy One who will come and help the world and all of you in the future.”

Then the old Brahman priest asked, “What will the characteristics of the Holy One be like?” The Buddha answered him, "The Holy One who will keep the world in the future will be like this: in the palms of his hands and in the flat of his feet will be the design of a disc, in the side will be a stab wound;** and his forehead will have many marks like scars.** This Holy One will be the golden boat who will carry you over the cycle of rebirths all the way to the highest heaven (Nirvana). Do not look for salvation the old way; there is no salvation in it for sure. Quit the old way. And there will be a new spirit like the light of a lightening bug in all of your hearts and you will be victorious over all your enemies. Nobody will be able to destroy you. If you die, you will not come back to be born in this world again. You will go to the highest heaven (Nirvana)."​

Buddha stated in writings that he, the Buddha, was not God, and you would know God had come among us** when you saw a man walking on water**.​

It seems fake to me, but I am wondering what your thoughts are.

 

[gelsbern]

Do you have more info about which part of the Buddhist Scriptures this comes from? There are several books, and I would like to track it down.

Thanks

 

[Contarini]

Also, the “highest heaven” is not Nirvana in Buddhism. They are different. The highest heaven would be a place where enlightened souls go *before *entering Nirvana. But I find the use of that phrase to be in itself suspicious.

If something like this is in the Buddhist Scriptures, I’d look first in the Pure Land texts.

Edwin

 

[Anthanis93]

Buddha Prophesized about Jesus (Yeshua)
Read more:
bibleprobe.com/buddhatoldofjesus.htm

Accurate Source !

 

[empther]

Interesting that this has escaped everybody’s notice until now. :ehh:

I don’t believe a word of the original post.

Buddha is worshipped by hundreds of millions. Would God use him as a prophet?
Completely ridiculous.

 

[patrick457]

Interesting that this has escaped everybody’s notice until now. :ehh:

I don’t believe a word of the original post.

Buddha is worshipped by hundreds of millions. Would God use him as a prophet?
Completely ridiculous.

The Buddha (or any other buddha, for that matter - buddha means an ‘enlightened one’ and is just a title for beings who have achieved enlightenment or bodhi) isn’t really ‘worshiped’. Sure, in some forms of Buddhism there’s the concept of the Eternal Buddha that sounds close to the monotheistic concept of God, but a buddha isn’t really a god or anything and are not worshipped as such (though they are venerated).

Is this genuine? No.

 

[rossum]

Buddhist Scriptures:

"When Buddha was travelling and living in this world, there was an old Brahman priest who wore white robes who asked the Buddha, “How will all men and all Brahman continue in their merit-making so as to escape the results of sin?” The Buddha answered, “Even though all of you give alms according to the 5 precepts, the 8 precepts, the 10 precepts, or the 227 precepts for 9 trillion years and you raise your hands and offer yourselves as a burnt offering, or you pray 5 times a day, you will still not escape the results of your sins. If you do this every day, your merit gained will only be equal to the smallest strand of hair of an unborn infant extremely small. You shall not enter heaven’s doors.”

There is no reference given for this, and at the very least the translation is a very bad one. The concept of “sin” is Christian, not Buddhist. The inability to escape the results of your actions is standard Buddhism. Actions generate merit (loosely, good karma) which can get you to one of the heavens. Merit alone cannot get you to nirvana. Nirvana is not one of the temporary heavens.

The old Brahman priest asked further, “So what should we all do?” The Buddha answered, “Keep on making merit and look for another Holy One who will come and help the world and all of you in the future.”

This sounds like a distorted translation of one of the prophecies of the Maitreya Buddha, who will be the next Buddha to be born on earth and who will re-establish the Buddhist religion after it disappears.

Then the old Brahman priest asked, “What will the characteristics of the Holy One be like?” The Buddha answered him, "The Holy One who will keep the world in the future will be like this: in the palms of his hands and in the flat of his feet will be the design of a disc, in the side will be a stab wound;** and his forehead will have many marks like scars.**

Again, a distorted translation of some of the 32 marks of a Buddha. For example, the discs on his feet:

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It seems fake to me, but I am wondering what your thoughts are.

I suspect that it is a translation by a Christian missionary, probably 19th century, who does not understand Buddhism and is trying to fit the text into a Christian framework.

Once there is a proper reference to the Tripitaka, you can look at a modern translation of the same passage and compare the two. For the moment, treat the translation sceptically.

rossum