Table of Contents

Introduction

Buddhist Parallels in Sculpture

• What is ‘pre-Christian?’
• Tales of the Buddha
• Miraculous Birth
• Master and Disciples
• The Visit of the Sage
• Temptation by the Evil One
• Walking on Water

Buddhist Parallels in Inscriptions

• Medical Missionaries

Buddha Becomes a Christian Saint

• The Saints are Gods of Other Cultures

Parable Parallels

• The Lotus Sutra
• The 500 Brothers

Parallel Sayings

Firsts Established by Buddhism

• Buddhist Sexism
• Were the Therapeuts of Egypt Buddhists?
• Angels and Saints
• The Two Thieves
• Pythagoras and Apollonius of Tyana
• Indians in the Mediterranean
• From Alexandria to Sri Lanka
• Relics and Confession
• The Calling of Councils
• Printing of Scriptures
• Alms-Giving

The Historicity of Jesus

• Jesus Mythicism
• Buddhist and NT Scholars

Criticisms

• Gematria?

Bibliography