Vivekananda: As you already know, I am not a Buddhist. If China, Japan, Ceylon follow the Teachings of the Great Teacher, then India worships Him as the embodiment of God on earth. I am really critical of Buddhism, but I would not want you to focus only on this. In general, I am far from criticizing the One whom I worship as the embodiment of God. But we think that Buddha was not deeply understood by his disciples. The relationship between Hinduism (by Hinduism I mean the religion of the Vedas) and what we today call Buddhism is closer than the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. Jesus Christ was a Jew and Shakya Muni was a Hindu. The Jews rejected Jesus Christ, moreover, they crucified Him, and the Hindus accepted Shakya Muni as God and worship Him as God. But we, Hindus, would like to show that the Teaching of Lord Buddha, in contrast to modern Buddhism, is that Shakya Muni did not preach anything fundamentally new. Like Christ, He came to complement but not destroy. But if the Jews, this ancient people, did not understand Christ, then the followers of Buddha failed to realize the main thing in His Teaching.