Category: History - Religious
There are many books on Buddhism, and to produce a new one almost demands an apology. Yet most of them deal with the dead past, and Buddhism is a living religion which is showing remarkable powers of revival and adaptation. This is a movement of so great significance that I ho...
There are many books on Buddhism, and to produce a new one almost demands an apology. Yet most of them deal with the dead past, and Buddhism is a living religion which is showin...
5. Part 5The great _Hondo_ or hall of the _Hongwanji_ temples in Kyōto is a thing of exquisite beauty. How different are these great altars, these exquisite paintings, this cave of splen...
3. Part 3In due time the body is restored to its resting place on the funeral pyre, the fire is lighted, and the whole mass flares up in flame and smoke, consuming not only the body, but...
2. Part 2(b) _They tend to view Gotama as a Saviour_.--Again many look upon Gotama as a loving saviour. So strong is this attitude toward him that when a father blesses his child, he say...
4. Part 4Such, in bare outline, is Southern Buddhism--in its origin a stoical agnosticism which ignored the gods and bade men rely upon themselves in following the paths of goodness that...
6. Part 6To this awakening there are several contributory causes, such as the national spirit which has awakened in recent years, the works of Eastern and Western students of Buddhism, t...