Looking at Christianity from a Buddhist perspective I see that Spirit (πνεῦμα) is never crucified. Only the flesh that is painful passes away because it is intrinsically empty (illusion-like).
Our passion (πάθημα) causes us to cling to the flesh so that we remain blind as to Spirit. Christ, who transcends flesh, is beyond all passions. The crucifixion is the wisdom that knows flesh is not Spirit (L., caro non est spiritus).
The true Cross, itself, is empty of all corporeal things. It symbolizes transcendence of the flesh. Jesus represents the mortality and pain of the flesh which in the final mystery vanishes so that only Spirit remains free of its former hiddenness.
In Buddhism, the Buddha represents the state of unconditioned Spirit that transcends all conditioned things. Both the Buddha and Christ also represent the transcendence of time and space which is always conditioned.
In a much deeper understanding, Spirit is undualized energy that is free from all dualizing patterns (e.g., observer in the observed). Hence, it cannot be in any simulation, yet it retains the inherent capacity to receive and transcend all simulations operating in the universe. This is what Buddhists call prajñāpāramitā in the sense of wisdom that transcends simulation which is never other than empty and illusory.
Whether we attach to the simulation out of desire or let go of the simulation so as, hopefully, to find a better one we, nevertheless, remain bound to it. We never cease being crucified because we never awaken to our true nature.
The Buddha said: Ānanda and all of you should know that living beings, since the time without beginning, have been subject continuously to birth and death because they do not know the permanent True Mind whose substance is, by nature, pure and bright. They have relied on false thinking which is not Reality so that the wheel of̧ saṃsāra turns. ~ Śūraṅgama Sūtra
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