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BUDDHAM SARANAM

GACCHAMI,

DHAMMAM SARANAM

GACCHĀMI,

SANGHAM SARANAM

GACCHĀMI.

THE GOSPEL
OF BUDDHA

COMPILED FROM ANCIENT RECORDS

BY

PAUL CARUS

ILLUSTRATED

BY

Ο. ΚΟΡΕΤZKY

CHICAGO AND LONDON

THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT 1894
IN THE UNITED STATES.
COPYRIGHT 1915 IN GREAT BRITAIN
UNDER THE ACT OF 1911,

(All rights reserved.)

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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PREFACE.

'HIS 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, 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 Nyānatiloka, 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

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