There are not many people who are students of economics, as well as of Buddhism and Christianity, so allow me to assure you that the following speculations are very well seasoned! Buddhism starts around the 6th century BC. whereas George's "Christian" ideas are "Christian" only in a honorary sense; in fact, they derive properly from Hebrew ideas (i.e. predating the rise of what we today call "Judaism"), and going back in fact to the Prophet Moses - several centuries before the Buddha the "research" that purports to show that Jesus was a Buddhist does not take seriously either Jesus or Buddhism, relying as the research does on one or two (out of the several thousand recorded) statements of Jesus. Moreover, the "Buddhist Jesus" theorists take these couple of statements entirely out of context (as this matter is not relevant to our list, I will not go on further about that, nor and about their distortions of Buddhism here, but will be happy to discuss these matters off-line with anyone interested) Prabhu Guptara