PATNA, India (Reuters) - A California-based Buddhist organization will build a Buddha statue in the eastern Indian state of Bihar which it says will be the tallest statue in the world. Project officials said the complex, expected to be ready by the end of 2005, will consist of a 500-foot bronze statue sitting on a 105-foot throne that will house a temple and a cinema hall screening films on the life of the Buddha.

``The Maitreya (future incarnation) Buddha will be seated on the throne with his feet on a lotus touching the earth,'' said L.P. Singh, the project's general secretary. ``The posture reflects the Buddha's readiness and willingness to come> into this world and start his worth as a universal teacher.''

Singh said the $150 million project in Bodh Gaya, the place where the Buddha is said to have attained spiritual enlightenment, is managed by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition of Buddhism.[http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000712/od/buddha_dc_1.html Link via: http://www.newsviewtoday.com ]

Question: Who was suppose to have given Buddha his enlightenment? [B]

Answer: In some notes I have, mentioning the book The Christ of the New Age Movement (by Ron Rhodes), he says,

THE SEVEN INCARNATIONS OF "THE CHRIST"

 

1. "Theosophy teaches that at the beginning of each subrace, the Supreme World Teacher (also known as 'the Christ,' the bestower of divine wisdom) enters the body of a disciple in order to assist and guide the spiritual evolution of man. Each 'incarnation' reveals more to man about God than the previous one. The five incarnations of Christ in the five subraces of the Aryan rootrace were Buddha (in India), Hermes (in Egypt), Zoroaster (in Persia), Orpheus (in Greece), and Jesus (at the River Jordan, where the Christ came upon Jesus at His baptism). [H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1966), 168-89.]" [From the book: The Christ of the New Age Movement, by Ron Rhodes ]

THEOSOPHY'S VIEWS CONCERNING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND MAN IN GENERAL

1. "Jesus is said to have volunteered his body for use by the Christ. Annie Besant, who took over Theosophical leadership when Blavatsky died, said: 'For Him [the Christ] was needed an earthly tabernacle, a human form, the body of a man. The man Jesus yielded himself a willing sacrifice, "offered himself without spot" to the Lord of Love, who took unto Himself that pure herein for three years of mortal life. [Annie Besant, Esoteric Christianity" (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1953), 90-91.]" [From the book: The Christ of the New Age Movement, by Ron Rhodes ]

These are New Age beliefs and have nothing to do with Christianity. In other words, "the [New Age] Christ" overshadowed Buddha and enlightened him. [Ed Tarkowski Source: http://www.ncinter.net/~ejt/ ]

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