Description
This course covers the salient fundamentals and essence of Buddhism, its doctrinal and theological approach to truth, its ethical practices, and its expansion history. The different strains, sects and schools of thought in Buddhism will be studied with special emphasis on Mahayana, Theravada, and Zen Buddhism and their contemporary global geographical locations. We will also look at the theological and missiological points of contact between these Buddhist schools and Christianity and also at the history of these contacts.