Buddhism (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Buddhism<br><br>Buddhism has developed with such luxuriance, and has spread over so large a portion of the East, that it is only possible for the writer of this pamphlet to discuss it from that point of view with which he is more familiar. He worked for five years in Burma among Europeans, and such time as he could spare to the study of Buddhism was largely spent in meeting the special difficulties with regard to it, which occupied the minds of his European congregations.<br><br>These difficulties, and those who feel them, seem to fall into two groups. There are those, in the first place, who fancy that Christianity was very largely indebted in early days to Buddhist influences; and then there are those who trouble very little about this first difficulty (and indeed, there is very little to be said for it) but who do feel that Buddhism, in whole or in part, offers a very reasonable attitude towards some of the problems of life.<br><br>Our solution of these difficulties must emerge in the course of the following pages, which are for the most part compiled from papers written from time to time in the course of editing the Rangoon Diocesan Magazine, during the years 1904-8, and were also published in the Lay Reader in 1911.<br><br>I should like to express my indebtedness to many of my fellow-workers in Burma, but most of all to the Rev. G. Whitehead, whose great knowledge of Buddhists and Buddhism underlies many of its statements.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.