NAMO TASSA BHAGAVATO ARAHATO SAMMASAMBUDDHASSA
NAMO TASSA BHAGAVATO ARAHATO SAMMASAMBUDDHASSA
NAMO TASSA BHAGAVATO ARAHATO SAMMASAMBUDDHASSA
Translation: May veneration be presented to the exalted one who is a Buddha and who has achieved enlightenment by himself righteously.
http://jonalynfincher.blogspot.com/2008/07/compare-jesus-part-i-jesus-outshines.html
JESUS OUTSHINES BUDDHA?
By
Bhikkhu aggacitto
Any scripture that is quoted is either from the Pali Canon Tipataka or the New International/King James or New King James Version of the Christian Bible as noted.
I have decided to delete most of this article because the circumstance that brought this article into creation has since expired.As long as the conversation that ensued with it's 117 comments remains accessible I no longer see the reason for this article.I have left a very small portion as a response to the main assertion of her article that was disputed, just in case someone doesn't choose to fish through 117 comments.
It is interesting to note as well, that even though she has been corrected on the matter of the meaning of the name 'Rahula' and has herself acknowledged as such she has yet to revise her article at any blog site that carries this article with even a footnote.Perhaps she chooses to chance for whatever reason that everyone will read all or most of the comments well enough to come a cross it themselves, but even that would only apply at the one site where the comments are actually posted.
It would seem as if Ms. Jonalyn Fincher does not care that she continues to post something that all parties have since acknowledged is simply untrue.I will acknowledge though that she has updated the comments section of one of the sites that carries this article.A noteworthy and laudable effort on her part.
O.K! Here's the part that I have previously mentioned:
In the Pali Canon Tipataka Sutta Nipata (Vs 336) the Venerable Rahula had this to say about his father the Buddha: “I shall always revere the torch bearer of humanity” as well at the Theragatha 295 in a poem that he composed he had this to say: “ I am called Rahula the lucky because I am both the Buddha’s son, and because I have seen the truth”
There are those who have simply stated that they don’t believe this is true, and that the Venerable Rahula was being dishonest somehow, apparently because it goes against what they would rather believe.
Now let us consider this:
In the Pali Canon Tipataka Vinaya Pitaka- Mahavagga section First Khandhaka#54 Rahula is taken as a young disciple and the Venerable Gotama's wife Yasodhara ,(usually referred to in the texts as Rahulamata) in the Apadana text of the Khuddhaka Nikaya as well as the Manorathapurani Anguttara Commentaries, is recorded as becoming a disciple herself of the Buddha a few years later after the Bhikkhuni sangha (community) was established.
Now the question is this: If the Buddha's son Rahula and his wife could console themselves to the fact of his leaving them for his spiritual journey at least to the extent that that were willing to become disciples of his several years later, taking this into consideration, whose opinion of the matter should be considered more important? The opinion of his wife and son or the opinion of someone close to two thousand five hundred years later with their own Christian religious agenda to comfort?
Have a blessed day!
Bhikkhu aggacitto
