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The idea of suffering: Christian ‘salvation through Christ’ and Buddhist ‘end of desire’ in Indian philosophy circles
Authors
Dr. Dheeraj Pratap Mitra, Dr. Amar Singh
Abstract
The question of suffering has always pulled people into deeper thought
and in India this pull feels even stronger because the country holds so many
ways of looking at pain, its cause and the hope of relief. Christianity and
Buddhism travel different roads yet both try to explain why human beings keep
falling into hurt and how they might walk out of it. Christian teaching looks
at suffering as something tied to the broken bond between humans and God and
the path forward moves through Christ’s sacrifice which becomes a moment where
sorrow turns into a strange doorway for grace; and this idea when it settles
into Indian soil often blends with local memories of oppression, healing, the
daily fight for dignity etc. Buddhism, on the other hand, starts at a different
point like the First Noble Truth names dukkha as a fact of life and Indian readers
have taken this truth quite seriously especially when desire, caste pressure,
social wounds are seen as part of the same chain of craving and fear which is
exactly why the old discipline of meditation and the Eightfold Path still feel
fresh for people who want some inner space. These two worlds meet often in
Indian philosophy circles and the meeting is rarely smooth sometimes a bit
sharp yet it opens many useful questions about the self, freedom, ethics and
the shape of community; and in this meeting scholars have started to see that
both traditions even with different answers give people a way to stand up again
and breathe with a little more hope. This paper explores those crossings,
looking at belief, practice and social meaning as they appear in India today.
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Pages:41-48
How to cite this article:
Dr. Dheeraj Pratap Mitra, Dr. Amar Singh " The idea of suffering: Christian ‘salvation through Christ’ and Buddhist ‘end of desire’ in Indian philosophy circles". International Journal of Applied Review
, Vol 1, Issue 2, 2025, Pages 41-48
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