Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue

 

Buddhism, in its various forms, realizes the radical insufficiency of this changeable world; it teaches a way by which [people], in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination. Nostra Aetate 2

Alliance of Religions and Conservation: Buddhism and Christianity Buddhist & Christian perspectives on Ecology

Buddhist-Christian Studies 19, 1999 includes articles on Jesus Christ through Buddhist Eyes and Gautama the Buddha through Christian Eyes

Canadian Buddhist Websites This site provides a directory of Buddhist temples, centers, and organizations across Canada.

European Network of Buddhist Christian Studies: The aims of this network are to promote mutual understanding, practical co-operation, study at academic level, interchange and friendship between Christians and Buddhists in study and dialogue.

Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies: The Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies was founded in February 1982 through the stimulus of the 1980 Hawaii Buddhist-Christian Conference and with Professor Doi Masatoshi as the principal initiator. Its aim from the start, as the Japan Chapter of the broader “East-West Religions Project” has been to promote the East-West the interreligious dialogue at the doctrinal level (philosophical and theological).It collaborates closely with the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies based in the United States.

Los Angeles Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue is sponsored by the Buddhist Sangha council and the Catholic Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. It was formed as an official, on-going, core group dialogue. Meetings are held every six to eight weeks, rotating between Buddhist and Catholic locations.

Message to Buddhists for the Feast Of Vesakh 2007: Educating Communities To Live In Harmony And Peace. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Message to Buddhists for the Feast Of Vesakh 2006: Buddhists and Christians at the Service of Humanity. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Message to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 2005: Buddhists and Christians in Solidarity. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Message to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 2004: Christians and Buddhists: Looking Together at Children, the Future of Humanity. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Message to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 2003: Buddhists and Christians: Praying for Peace in the World. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Message to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 2002: Buddhists and Christians: Promoting a Culture of Life for the Future. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Message to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 2001: Buddhists and Christians: Together Promoting a Culture of Dialogue. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Message to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 2000: Christians and Buddhists: Pilgrims in Dialogue Towards A New Millennium. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Message to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 1999: Christians and Buddhists: In Renewed Solidarity for the Good of the Humankind. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Message to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 1998: Christians and Buddhists: Together in Hope. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Message to Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 1997: Christians and Buddhists: Communities of Forgiveness and Compassion. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Monastic Interreligious Dialogue (MID) is an organization of Benedictine and Trappist monks and nuns committed to fostering interreligious and intermonastic dialogue at the level of spiritual practice and experience between North American Catholic monastic women and men and contemplative practitioners of diverse religious traditions.

 

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