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Lectures on Buddhism.Professor Lanman will give three lectures upon Buddhism in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, on Wednesday evenings, at 8 o'clock, beginning April 29, as follows...
April 29.- The origin and the literature of Buddhism.- The Buddha and the Buddha-Legend...
...Buddhism has been often over and underrated. While the inhabitants of Japan and China are in a way Buddhists, they are also Confuscians. The evolution of the religion is a long story, running back in unbroken records to the Vedas...
...first Buddhism was not very different from the other sects; but it was gradually elaborated. The main difference was in the personality of the great teacher Buddha...
...sources of knowledge of Buddhism are in the northern and southern literature of India. That of the south comes nearest to the personality of Buddha. The importance of the Buddha legend lies in the fact that a knowledge of Buddha's personality is necessary to understand Buddhism. The basis of the whole system is a belief in pessimism and innumerable births...