A Catena of Buddhist Scriptures From the Chinese
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And re- specting this also a trustworthy writer^ has said that " the worship of Buddhism was not one of form and ceremony^ but an appeal to Reason only: Religion, therefore, he adds, it can hardly be called, for it opens no field for the play of the emotions. It is rather a school of philosophy. " But the writer of this statement can hardly have considered that the original disciples of Buddhism were not philosophers, but men and women of all classes in society, and in some cases outcasts and c...handalas. It was the glory of Buddhism to admit of no caste in Religion, and to offer Salvation alike to Brahman and Sudra. This simple truth, by itself, would offer a large field for ^' the play of the emotions. " But the same winter adds, on the same page of his work, that " it was Fear which threw multitudes at the feet of Buddha, the fear of an eternity of Revolution through the cycle of animal existences"; in other words, the fear of '■'' eternal misery. " But is not such Fear a necessary, nay a chief, part of all Religion ?
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And re- specting this also a trustworthy writer^ has said that " the worship of Buddhism was not one of form and ceremony^ but an appeal to Reason only: Religion, therefore, he adds, it can hardly be called, for it opens no field for the play of the emotions. It is rather a school of philosophy. " But the writer of this statement can hardly have considered that the original disciples of Buddhism were not philosophers, but men and women of all classes in society, and in some cases outcasts and c...handalas. It was the glory of Buddhism to admit of no caste in Religion, and to offer Salvation alike to Brahman and Sudra. This simple truth, by itself, would offer a large field for ^' the play of the emotions. " But the same winter adds, on the same page of his work, that " it was Fear which threw multitudes at the feet of Buddha, the fear of an eternity of Revolution through the cycle of animal existences"; in other words, the fear of '■'' eternal misery. " But is not such Fear a necessary, nay a chief, part of all Religion ?
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