THE WAY THE ESCHATOLOGICAL AND MESSIANIC CHRISTIAN VISION OF THE FUTURE CORRELATES WITH THE BUDDHISTIC ONE

Specific features of eschatological, messianic and apocalyptic worldviews of Buddhism about the future, and their differences from Christian ones are being explored in the article. Based on the analysis of the works of domestic and foreign authors, it is concluded that the Messianic, eschatological and apocalyptic ideas of Christianity about the future are practically not represented in the canonical texts of Buddhism, although this topic, as it is known, presupposes such elements. The author relies on philosophical and religious studies, dialectical principles, comparative historical methods and textual analysis of religious texts of Buddhism and Christianity. The novelty of the study is that in the religious texts of Buddhism about the future there are eschatological and messianic ideas, similar to Christianity, interpreted by Buddhists in a different doctrinal and dogmatic manner. The author of the article asserts that the philosophical and religious analysis of Buddhism about the future is based on the anthropic principle, grounded in the philosophy of organicism, according to which man and society are interconnected with the cosmotellurgical environment. The core of the philosophical and religious system of Buddhism is the concept of cyclic time, the sacred concept of "kalpa". Kalpas " - are the eras of enormous length, into which the universe is divided. They begin and end with universal cataclysms and contain cosmogonic, eschatological and messianic themes. The concept of "mappo" - resembles the "apocalyptic arithmetic" of Christianity, in which frequent ups and downs occur taking up the destructive forms. But they give hope for the arrival of Maitreya-Messiah, who will save them from the accumulated problems, and in Christianity, Jesus Christ will put the end to the modern civilization. In conclusion, the inference is drawn: despite the intricacy of eschatological, apocalyptic concepts in the Mongol, Chinese, Korean and Japanese doctrinal systems of Buddhism, there is the general that unites them with the Christian one, it is the desire of world renewal.

«кальпа», religion, Buddhism, Christianity, the future, the concept of "mappo", "kalpa", eschatology, millennialism, messianic and apocalyptic ideas, transcendental

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