GOSPEL CUDDHA ED FROM ANCIENT RECORDS BY PAUL CARUS ILLUSTRATED BY O. KO PETZKY CHICAGO AND LONDON THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY THE GOSPEL COMPILED FROM ANCIENT RECORDS BY PAUL CARUS ILLUSTRATED BY O. KO PETZKY CHICAGO AND LONDON THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1894 (All rights reserved.) PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HIS booklet needs no preface for those who are fam THIS iliar 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, Bühler, Burnouf, Childers, Alexander Csoma, Rhys Davids, Dutoit, Eitel, Fausböll, Foucaux, Francke, Edmund Hardy, Spence Hardy, Hodgson, Charles R. Lanman, F. Max Müller, Karl Eugen Neumann, Oldenberg, Pischel, Schiefner, Senart, Seidenstücker, Bhikkhu Nyanatiloka, D. M. Strong, Henry Clarke Warren, Wassiljew, Weber, Windisch, Winternitz &c. To those not familiar with the subject it may be stated that the bulk of its contents is derived from the old Buddhist canon. Many passages, and indeed the most important ones, are literally copied in translations from the original texts. Some are rendered rather freely in order to make them intelligible to the present generation; others have been rearranged; and still others are abbreviated. Besides the three introductory and the three concluding chapters there are |