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This claim is ridiculous, and a part of the syncratic spirit of the age. Buddhism is a religion, and with the exception of larping Californian buddhists who pretend it's a philosophy without dogma and a few deceitful recruiters, anyone will tell you this. Buddhism has dogma, theology, sects, and heresies, the foundation of Buddhist teaching of which being the four noble truths, which are incompatible with Christianity.
My patron saint was an evangelist in Japan, and an attempted on his life was made by a Buddhist samurai. St Nicholas asked the samurai if he knew what he was preaching, and the samurai did not, so Nicholas asked him to hear the Gospel, and if after doing so still wanted to kill Nicholas, he would not resist. The samurai became the first Japanese Orthodox priest, Fr Paul Sawabe. Pic related.
St Nicholas devoted his life to bringing to Gospel to the Japanese, who at the time persecuted Christians and forbade conversion. He studied Japanese language and native religion, shintoism and zen buddhism, and although he referred to the buddhist pagans as noble, he also explicitly said "Those who claim that Buddhism and Christianity are compatible understand neither"