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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. BUDDHISM AND MODERN UNBELIEF. The interest that has been taken of late in Buddhism by a large number of intelligent people in various Christian countries is one of the most peculiar and suggestive religious phenomena of our day. In the United States this interest had prevailed for a considerable time among a somewhat restricted number of persons who have known or thought that they knew something of Buddhism; but since 1879, through the publication of Mr. Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia, the popularity of the subject has in a very marked degree increased. Many who would have been repelled by any formal, drily philosophical treatise upon Buddhism, have been attracted to it by the undoubted charm of Mr. Arnold's verse. The issue of cheap editions of the poem, selling for only a few cents, has helped in the same direction, as this has brought the poem, and with it the subject, to the attention of a large number of persons not yet sufficiently interested in Buddhism to have cared to pay much more. And ft so it has come to pass that everywhere among reading and intelligent people we find a very considerable number who think that they now know something about the Buddha and his religion, and have found awakened in their minds—often quite unexpectedly to themselves—a very surprising interest in this " venerable religion " which Mr. Arnold has presented to the English-reading public in such an attractive guise. Among these we find here and there some Christian people, who seem to be somewhat disquieted by what they have learned—or think that they have learned— concerning Buddhism. They have met with so much in the story of the Buddha and his teachings which they had supposed to be peculiar to Christianity, that a feeling of anxiety has arisen lest the evidence for th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548052167
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0548052166
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 412
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 772 gr


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