The Gospel of Buddha, Compiled from Ancient Records - Softcover

Carus, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1503096203 ISBN 13: 9781503096202

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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The Gospel of Buddha was an 1894 book by Paul Carus. It was modeled on the New Testament and told the story of Buddha through parables. It was an important tool in introducing Buddhism to the west and is used as a teaching tool by some Asian sects. Carus believed that the modern world required a new Religion of Science. By the 1890s, inspired by the meetings and conversations at the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1893, he had decided that Buddhism was the closest faith to his ideal and created The Gospel of Buddha to popularize the religion in the West. The work was assembled from existing English translations of Buddhists texts, with significant amendments and reworkings. His selection of texts favoured Buddhism as a philosophy without any supernatural elements. While criticized by contemporary scholars, this interpretation proved popular in the West. It proved a popular success, with a number of reprintings. It also influenced the development of Buddhist modernism in East Asia, notably in a Japanese translation of the book by D. T. Suzuki. The Gospel of Buddha is a religious study that needs no preface for those who are familiar with the sacred books of Buddhism, which have been made accessible to the Western world by the indefatigable zeal and industry of scholars like Beal, Bigandet, Buehler, Burnouf, and others. To those not familiar with the subject it may be stated that the bulk of its contents is derived from the old Buddhist history canon.

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This booklet needs no preface for those who are familiar with the sacred books of Buddhism, which have been made accessible to the Western world by the indefatigable zeal and industry of scholars like Beal, Bigandet, Buehler, Burnouf, and others. To those not familiar with the subject it may be stated that the bulk of its contents is derived from the old Buddhist canon.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1503096203
• ISBN 13: 9781503096202
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262