Original sentence: Both advocated radical alterations in the common religious practices of the day.Buddhists' views of Jesus differ.Jesus is not, of course, mentioned in any Buddhist text, and there is no centralized dogmatic authority in Buddhism, so there cannot be an official Buddhist view on Jesus.Other Buddhists  regard Jesus as a bodhisattva who dedicated his life to the welfare of human beings.Some Buddhist scholars have noted parallels between the teachings of Jesus and Gautama Buddha both in terms of preaching a doctrine of love and compassion and of occupying a similar position with respect to the existing religious orthodoxy of their day of which they were both critical.Some Buddhists do not regard Jesus as an extraordinary figure.Some believe there is a particularly close affinity between Buddhism (or Eastern spiritual thought generally) and the doctrine of Gnostic texts such as The Gospel of Thomas.There are occasional similarities in language, such as the use of the common metaphor of a line of blind men to refer to religious authorities they disagreed with (DN 13.15, Matthew 15:14)
Edited sentence: Both were religious reformers.Buddhist scholars have often noted the striking parallels between the teachings of Jesus and Gautama Buddha not simply because they both preached a doctrine of love and compassion but also because they occupied a similar position with respect to the existing religious orthodoxy of their day of which they were both critical.Especially since the discovery of The Gospel of Thomas in 1945 much comment has arisen as to the affinity between the doctrine contained there and Eastern spiritual thought generally.Many Buddhists (including Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama) regard Jesus as a great bodhisattva who dedicated his life to the welfare of human beings.They both describe priests without personally verified spiritual realization as 'the blind leading the blind', an expression that occurs in both the Sutta Pitaka and the gospels