From what I have learned regarding Buddhism from my Japanese teachers is the fact that the Japanese do not teach a Buddhism that is "inclusive of Africa's history in Buddhism.  Shakymuni's Buddha Teachings of Buddhism did not reach Japan until over 1100 years after Shakymuni Buddha emerged on the world stage.  Please note that concrete evidence proves that  Buddhism arrived in Africa 500 years before the Birth of Christ. Evidence and history shows that the Buddhism of Shakymuni was in Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. British Historian Godfrey Higgins points out in his 1833 book the Analacypsis that the "Tribe of Judah were a tribe of Black Jews who were Buddhist that came from India. Jesus Lineage is from the "Tribe of Judah." What is called the "Middle East" is really "Africa." Historical evidence shows that Buddhism was deep in Africa.  When you go into the real history of Christianity you will find that ancient Christian teachings and that of Buddhism is one and the same religion. What happen was the teachings changed from the Buddhist teachings and emerged to be the Christian Religion we see today. It is fascinating and exciting learning that  ancient Christian teaching was that of the Buddha.  Please note that the foundation of what is now the Christian Religion came directly from Buddhism.  The Buddhism of Shakyamuni Buddha of India emerged 500 years before Christianity.  Buddhist missionaries took the religion from India and took the religion right smack into the area where Christianity was born in Africa 500 years before Christ.

Those of you who are Nichiren Buddhist if you study the teachings of Nichiren Daishonin, Nichiren's teachings will give you a clear road to understand not only religion but "Phenomena." As a Black man practicing Buddhism in America I find that the "Japanese" are not really teaching Buddhism. There is racism in Buddhism.  There is culture in America that if the teachings do not come from some Japanese like Daisaku Ikeda or the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood the information is not important.

The Gosho “The True Entity of All Phenomena” Reads;

Q UESTION: The “Expedient Means” chapter in the first volume of the Lotus Sutra states, “The true aspect of all phenomena [can only be understood and shared between Buddhas. This reality consists of the appearance, nature . . . and] their consistency from beginning to end.” What does this passage mean?

Answer: It means that all beings and environments in the Ten Worlds, from hell, the lowest, to Buddhahood, the highest, are without exception manifestations of Myoho-renge-kyo. If there is an environment, living beings are bound to dwell there. A commentary states, “Living beings and their environments always manifest Myoho-renge-kyo.” Another says: “The true aspect invariably manifests in all phenomena, and all phenomena invariably manifest in the ten factors. The ten factors invariably manifest in the Ten Worlds, and the Ten Worlds invariably manifest in life and its environment.” And “Both the beings and the environment of the Avichi hell exist entirely within the life of the highest sage [Buddha], and what is more, the life and the environment of Vairochana [Buddha] never transcend the lives of common mortals.” These explanations are precise and clear. Who could have doubts? Thus, the entire realm of phenomena is no different than the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo.

When you as Buddhist understand Namu Myoho Renge Kyo you can come to understand all religions and its history.

British Historian Godfrey Higgins provides evidence that Christian Teachings came from Buddhism. On Page 152 in the book the Anacalypsis Higgins clearly state that both Religions of Cristna and Jesus Christ came directly from the Buddhist teachings.  Read below what Higgins write in the Anacalypsis.

"The time has now arrived when it becomes proper to enter upon an examination of the doctrines of the celebrated Buddha of India, which were the foundations of all the mythoses of the Western nations, as well as of those which we have seen of Cristna; and from these two were supplied most of the superstitions which became engrafted into the religion of Jesus Christ."

I shall shew, that Buddha and Cristna were only renewed incarnations of the same Being, and that Being the Solar power, or a principle symbolized by the Sun—a principle made by the sun visible to the eyes of mortals : and particularly exhibiting himself in his glory at the vernal equinox, in the heavenly constellation known by the name of Taurus, as BUDDHA, and subsequently in that of Aries, as CRISTNA."

Before the time of Christ you had the Aksum or Axum Empire in Ethiopia. Look on the ancient map you see  Nubia or the Nubian Kingdom. We move up and we see Egypt. Buddhism was in Axum, Nubia and Egypt. To this very day at the ruins of the Apedemak Temple Nubia or (Sudan) we find Buddhist Lotus inscription. What is more compelling is the Kharosthi script spoken in India as the foundation of the Meroti language. These people were called in the Bible Cush or Kushites.  In India they were the Naga people.  The Axum empire ruled parts of Africa and India. The father of History Herotudus writes that there were two Ethiopia's one West of the Red Sea and one East of the Red sea.  Buddhist teachers and scholars came into Africa almost 500 years before Christ.  These Buddhist were call Gymnosophist. The Nubians, Dravidians, Cushites, Ethiopians were African or Black people. Early Christianity came from Africa and later moved to Rome.  Godfrey Higgins in the Anacalypsis states that the formal system of Christianity emerged from the Buddhist system.
From the stand point of the messinger of the Buddha" Nichiren Daishonin in Japan the Gosho reads:"Only Buddhas know the true entity of all phenomena.. the appearance nature ... What study and research gives us is the ability to look at phenomena and understand phenomena. We can study the history of the  Christian religion and gain a clear insight into the religion.  Buddha means life or "Wisdom."  From the standpoint of History both Buddhism and Christianity or let us say "White Racism" removed the African history or the "True Origins" of the religion.  Christianity in its "original form" is the exact same teachings of Buddhism or the "Buddha."  We give an understanding of Christianity and Buddhism inclusive of Africa and African people and their influence. Also from the stand point of historical events we gain a greater insight and understanding of the evolution of Christianity.
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