Agapė ir karuna kai kurie visa apimančios meilės sampratos krikščionybėje ir budizme aspektai
AGAPE AND KARUNA: THE ALLEMBRACING LOVE IN CHRISTIANITY AND BUDDHISM

Summary/Abstract: The Christianity and Buddhism seem to be religious and philosophical systems so remote from each other that even opposite. In spite of this they meet together in the concept of all embracing love – human love that originates in divine gospel of love and life. The Buddhists call such love karuna and Christians call it agape. This article is an attempt to find out in what relation with other aspects of love (for example eros) is karuna and agape. How it is associated with negative emotions, feelings, faults and limitations of life and human nature. The main ask on the way to all embracing love is the retraction, denial of self and the world. How we can harmonize the retraction and love – the turning away from everything and the most intimate relation? This is the question I try to answer in this article.

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