Buddhist influence on the West is way older. It goes back to Hellenistic era, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art

Not unlikely Christianity was influenced by Buddhism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_Christianity.

And certain groups, especially a Gnostic creed Catharism, has a lot of similarities.

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satvikpendem 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Reminds me of the movie Man from Earth (don't watch the sequel). The precepts of both Christ and the Buddha are quite striking in their similarities, but perhaps both are a manifestation of an even deeper principle, of what it means to be a good person.

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dbtc an hour ago | parent [-]

If you rephrase this as succinctly as you can you'll end up quoting the Dao de Jing.

	▲	satvikpendem an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The source of that comes from somewhere too, as it's still a human made construction. It seems like being "good" is simply advantageous to us as a species, hence why it is in all religions.