jupitermadcat

Does the Baha'i Faith recognize all Religions or just the major world religions and are they just God Based Religions? From what i know Buddhism is not generally considered a Monolithic Religion and they don't seem to acknowledge a God.

InvestigateTruth

Baha'i Faith recognizes all the divine origin religions, including Buddhism. Though, original (Authentic) writings of Buddha is not available, therefore if some Buddhist believe that Buddhism is not from God, in Baha'i view that's because, during ages these original teachings has been changed or lost, otherwise Buddha was a Manifestation of God and Baha'u'llah is the fifth Buddha.

arthra

So Jupiter..You may be interested in the following:

Bahá'í Faith and Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

also:

http://irfancolloquia.org/pdf/lights8_kluge.pdf

A few years ago I posted this:

There are two Baha'i writers I feel have been most influential to me in the area of Baha'i - Buddhist comparisons ..

(1) One Moojan Momen is largely online at:

Buddhism and the Baha'i Faith

His book I believe on Buddhism and the Baha'i Faith is also in print.

http://www.amazon.com/Buddhism-Bahai...=5336612416-20

(2) The other was Jamshed Fozdar in his "Buddha Maitreya Amitabha has appeared"

Amazon.com: Buddha Maitrya-Amitabha has appeared: Jamshed K. Fozdar: Books

cire perdue

Buddhism is very old as is Hinduism. In Tibet the older religion of the people was combined with Buddhism. Baha'is recognize Buddha as a Manifestation of God in His day, as well as Krishna. We may never know what the original Messages were. All of these Messages were true, however the differences between them was that God only revealed what was necessary for that period of time and that people in those milieus, genres, or contexts. That is the difference in all the world religions, the Revelation was for that time, that place.

jupitermadcat

Thank you all!