The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each Nation, Vol. 10: India and Buddhism (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, With Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each Nation, Vol. 10: India and Buddhism It has been pointed out by our Western thinkers that in such a system there is very-little use for God; there is per haps no room for him. Hence Buddhism has been frequently accused of being a form of atheism. Its believers deny this; they are willing to accept any number of deities. Only their thought centers not on gods, but on man, on man's progress rising or falling ...
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Excerpt from The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, With Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each Nation, Vol. 10: India and Buddhism It has been pointed out by our Western thinkers that in such a system there is very-little use for God; there is per haps no room for him. Hence Buddhism has been frequently accused of being a form of atheism. Its believers deny this; they are willing to accept any number of deities. Only their thought centers not on gods, but on man, on man's progress rising or falling through many transmigrations of body, but always capable of attaining superiority to and thus escape from the wheel of life. Man, the immaterial Spirit, may rise above both the material and the immaterial world, and thereby reach Nirvana. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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