Source: OMF International, July 2019<\/p>\n
Recently OMF International has been highlighting stories showing that Buddhists aren\u2019t all the same. They don\u2019t necessarily believe or behave the way you might expect from a textbook!<\/p>\n
Jane, a devout Buddhist in Taiwan<\/a>, shared what Buddhist means to her without ever mentioning the \u201cnoble truths\u201d or the \u201ceightfold way.\u201d Instead she talked about loving her family, the importance of listening to others, respect and treating all people equally.<\/p>\n Japanese Buddhism is hard to define<\/a>, acknowledges an OMF worker in Japan, though it focuses largely on keeping the traditions of one\u2019s ancestors. Confucianism and Shintoism are also part of the Japanese worldview. \u201cTeasing out the differences between the three is nearly impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe were surprised to hear the branch of Buddhism they belonged to also teaches salvation by grace<\/a>,\u201d say other missionaries, also in Japan, with friends who follow Pure Land Buddhism. They grapple with the implications of having similar but different understandings of grace and faith.<\/p>\n \u00bb See also OMF\u2019s new infographic about Buddhism<\/a>. Well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: OMF International, July 2019 Recently OMF International has been highlighting stories showing that Buddhists aren\u2019t all the same. They don\u2019t necessarily believe or behave the way you might expect from a textbook! Jane, a devout Buddhist in Taiwan, shared what Buddhist means to her without ever mentioning the \u201cnoble truths\u201d or the \u201ceightfold way.\u201d … Continue reading BUDDHIST WORLD: Diverse Pictures of Buddhism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8686,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions\/8686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}