31Jul 2022 by contact@answering-buddhism.com

From a Buddhist to a Follower of Jesus

Testimonies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESElYh_zQM4 Hello, I am Hwanja Lee from Hanmaum Church in Chuncheon. I was a devout Buddhist but now I believe in the risen Jesus as the Lord of my heart and enjoy freedom. I'd like to share my testimony with you. I was raised in a Buddhist family as the second of 10 children. I had been sickly ever since I was little so I asked a shaman what I should do. She said that I would get better if I became a shaman too. I didn't want to become a shaman so I refused her offer to help me receive a shaman spirit. Years passed and I got married and gave birth to my first daughter. My daughter had a lot of high fevers and convulsions and this scared…
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30Jul 2022 by contact@answering-buddhism.com

From a BUDDHIST MONK to a FOLLOWER OF CHRIST

Testimonies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ppGp5NNGgA At a young age, Zac Vachikhan found himself  hanging around bad influences as a result of   unresolved issues concerning his father. I grew  up without my dad. He left when I was pretty   young and you know throughout my life I've  always wondered why he left and I   always had this feeling that it was my fault. So I started getting into the wrong crowd,   I just had that didn't-care mentality. As his  insecurities took over and depression set in,   Zac looked to drugs for the answer. I started  smoking weed at the age of 11 or 12 all the way   to about last year. That's 11 years and on top of  that I was always partying and trying to   fill this…
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30Jul 2022 by contact@answering-buddhism.com

Genesis Code Hidden Within The Ancient Chinese Language

Religion of Ancient China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjGUC9GNqfE The Chinese language is the oldest continuously written language in the world. It was first written over 4,500 years ago. The inventors of the written language drew pictures to express words or ideas. Simple pictures were combined to make more complex thoughts. For example, in the ancient Chinese culture the older brother was a spokesperson for the family. This is possibly why the character for elder brother is the “mouth man”. If you add the ancient Chinese writings of “mouth” and “man” together, it makes the word “elder brother”.  Well-known history in common everyday things were used to make a word so people could remember it. Before Buddha, the Chinese people worship the same God described in the Bible. The proof is in the ancient Chinese characters “上帝” (“shangti”)…
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30Jul 2022 by contact@answering-buddhism.com

The God early Chinese worshipped

Religion of Ancient China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw4iP4fbYd4 When you think about Chinese history and culture, you probably think of Confucius as the beginning of Chinese culture and civilization. But you would be wrong because Confucius only came in at half time. Before Confucius, there was already 2,000 years of Chinese history and records before Confucius even came on the scene. And then another 2000 plus years to us now. What I am sharing with you to pay attention to comes at the beginning of the Chinese civilization. I believe the knowledge of God is brought over after the dispersion at the Tower of Babel. When we talk about foreign religion, Buddhism only came into China in 68 AD and only flourished during the Tang dynasty in the 400s and because the result is the Tang dynasty…
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29Jul 2022 by contact@answering-buddhism.com

What desires must we detach from to eliminate suffering?

Buddhist Beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1_HHTa3kfw If you think detaching from desire is how you attain enlightenment, aren't you contradicting yourself by desiring enlightenment? You see that? How can you detach from desire to attain enlightenment if you desire enlightenment? You see? So that is that's just a common sense argument that just makes it so ridiculous. Now some of these eastern religions people especially buddhists, they might try to be more specific, they might go “No, you misunderstand. What we mean by desire is we need to detach ourselves from craving pleasures and material goods, basically the worldly goods. So that's what they'll try to change into. Now trust me, the majority of buddhists don't catch that because they don't study buddhism that much or eastern religions. Only the ones who dig deep will…
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29Jul 2022 by contact@answering-buddhism.com

Should we try to extinguish all desires?

Buddhist Beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkXTkHf-R9M What are the fundamental claims? For example, in Buddhism the goal is to extinguish hunger, extinguish desire. I remember talking to the first woman monk who was from Thailand to be ordained into the Buddhist priesthood but Thai Buddhists do not ordain women so she went to Sri Lanka to be ordained and she has a PhD in philosophy from McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario and Waterloo. I guess Ontario Mcmaster did a university there. Got her PhD in philosophy and she gave me the first interview. We chatted for well over an hour one-on-one and I sort of angled into some questions because I didn’t want to be too discourteous. And one of the things I said to her is “I hear you’re married” and she said “yes”.…
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15Aug 2021 by contact@answering-buddhism.com

How Buddhism started in India and spread to China

Buddhist Beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyXEfgYUYfw Buddhism was originated in the 6th century BCE in what's today known as Nepal and India. It was brought to China by Buddhist monks from India and central Asia during the later period of the Han dynasty in the 2nd century CE through the silk roads. It wasn't until a few centuries later that Buddhism became assimilated into Chinese culture. One of the key forces of Buddhism’s success was actually Taoism, an original social practice of ancient China. Early Buddhist monks borrowed ideas from Taoist via the Chinese language to help the Chinese understand Buddhist concepts, which at that time was very new and strange to Chinese people. Both Buddhism and Taoist benefited from this exchange. Taoist expanded their ideas about the cosmos and ways to structure their monastic…
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