Japanese ’Buddhist Chrystology’ by Seiichi Yagi
Abstract
Japan is shintoist country where strong influences of Buddhism are present. There is small percentage of Christianity in Japan but it is Christianity that produced the greatest number of theologians in Asia, excluding India. One of the most interesting theologians who was inspired by Buddhism is Seiichi Yagi. In his christology he puts separately Logos, Christ and historic Jesus from Nazareth and by this he shows similarities to the concept of Buddha's three bodies. Yagi applies Katsumi Takizawa's ideas about two contacts with God. First contact assumes that God lives in every human being and second contact is the moment of illumination that led to creating Christ out of Jesus. The characters of Buddha and Jesus are similar to each other: both rejected egoistic ego and adopted true self through illumination.
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