Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . afterwards, to teach abelief in a spiritual God, and a future state of existence depending on the spiritual stateof the soul in this life, and to destroy priesicraft. Instead of his disciples denying a God,they honoured Him, solely because they believe that God spoke through him.—IVest-vtinsier Review. A story of marvellous interest. . The author has treated his subject with greatlucidity and vigour, and displays great acuteness and erudition.—Liverpool Albion. The main object of the volume is to refute the erroneous view of Buddhism furnishedby
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . afterwards, to teach abelief in a spiritual God, and a future state of existence depending on the spiritual stateof the soul in this life, and to destroy priesicraft. Instead of his disciples denying a God,they honoured Him, solely because they believe that God spoke through him.—IVest-vtinsier Review. A story of marvellous interest. . The author has treated his subject with greatlucidity and vigour, and displays great acuteness and erudition.—Liverpool Albion. The main object of the volume is to refute the erroneous view of Buddhism furnishedby the Hibbert Lectures of 1881, and the refutation is complete. . Mr. Lillie shows,on the best authority, that at the time of Hwen Thsang, when the controversy betweenthe two parties was furiously raging, the Buddhism of Ceylon was that of the CJreatVehicle, the innovating Buddhism. . Dr. Rhys Davids has plainly shuffled the twoBuddhisms together.—Public Opinion. London : Kecan Paul, Trench & Co., i. Paternoster Square. I I. CHKIST WITH THE , I HAVE SET liEKOKE THEE A UOOK OlENEU.—ReV. iii . Fr(»itis/>hccA BUDDHISM IN CHRISTENDOM OR JESUS, THE ESSENE BY arthurlillie AUIHOR OF THE POPULAR LIFE OF BUDDHA He shall be the last to obtain the great spiritual light; and he will become a Lordcalled the Buddha of Brotherly Love (INIaitreya).—Buddkas prophecy of his successorin ilie Saddharina Pitndarika WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS LONDONKEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., i, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1887 (jriic tij^hti of ttamlaiion and of ixpioduciwn arc racrucd.) PREFACE. It has been wisely said that, to understand any solitaryreligion, two, at least, must be studied. This seems essen-tially important when the religion is Eastern, and the studenthas been educated in the West. There is a tendency in thehuman mind to explain to itself that which is remote by thatwhich is familiar. The Western mind is logical, matter-of-fact, impatient of symbolism. And yet Christianity is an
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