There are 152 000 Buddhists in England & Wales, 0.3% of the population
Pages on Buddhism on this site:
- Buddhism is atheistic
- Criticism of Buddhism
- "Buddhism is the most moral religion known, in both its careful philosophies on society and its behaviour world-wide, yet in Buddhism morality is not based on any gods, but on a system of cause and affect." - "Ethics without Gods" by Vexen
- The Buddhist Emperor Wang Mang was 'probably the first recorded ruler to abolish the slave trade' - "Slavery" by Vexen, 2003
Relevant pages on my DPJ Satanism site:
- The History of Sin: Buddhism
- The Romantic Search for Truth (2 Buddhist Stories)
- LaVeyan Satan as the enemy of Buddhism
- The Chopsticks tale is a Vietnamese/Buddhist parable of Heaven and Hell - compare the story with a Satanic counterpart!
- The Second Precept (of the Five Precepts of Right Conduct in Therevada Buddhism is the same as Satanic Rule of the Earth number 6
- Satanism is closer to Buddhism than to Christianity
- "In the ancient Middle East the trident denoted lightening, and Buddhists link the trishul with the vajra or thunderbolt, and with the three jewels" - "The Trident" by Vexen
- "Christianity and Buddhism are frequently morbid in their degradation of real life, Christians holding that we live permanently in sin and Buddhism that all of our desires and wants are misguided and ultimately betray us to further suffering." - "The Balanced Religion" by Vexen, 2002
- "The Buddhist Hell is divided into eight sections, the first seven of which can be expiated" - "Hell" by Vexen, 2002
- Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophists brought many Buddhist ideas into the West, responsible for much of twentieth century Western occultisms heavily Hindu- and Buddhist- influenced beliefs and practices - The Left Hand Path by Vexen, 2002
- "We are told that on the night of the full moon of Wesak (the month of May in the Western calendar), the Buddha fixed his mind on the morning star as it was rising, and the moment of full enlightenment occurred" - quoted on "Lucifer" by Vexen, 2001
- "Buddha's Middle Way also teaches also that self mortification and extreme austere behavior is an incorrect way to live" - "Satanism: The Profane Religion" by Vexen, 2003
- Before the Nazis, almost every race, religion and continent honoured the swastika, including Buddhists - "Swasticross" by Vexen
Comments on other websites by Vexen:
- "The Buddha's Middle Way taught that physical fitness was as essential as mental dexterity and that they depended on each other." - "Self Development" by Vexen, 2002
- The Ethic of Reciprocity appears in many religions. Buddha said, 'Let a man overcome anger by kindness, evil by good' - it is the same rule later adopted by Christians as their Golden Rule, by Pagans as the Wiccan Rede and by many others. - "The Golden Rule" by Vexen, 2001
- In a dream in 2002 the primitive survivors of a once great city are discovered. A helicopter hunts me and kills me with its blades but not before a Buddhist monk says some inspiring words to me! - "City Tribe Helicopter" by Vexen
- "During the whole of [The Buddha's] ministry, however, he embraced a world-renouncing life which excluded sexual contact. The rules for the Buddhist monks reflect this example of the Buddha. Such rules are still applied in Theravada Buddhism, but married monks are found among Mahayana Buddhists." - The Phenomenon of Religion by Moojan Momen, book quotes and info
William James says that Buddhism, like Christianity, is more "complete" than many other religions because it has attempted complex explanations of why suffering exists - The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: Book notes & quotes