Description
The purpose of this short book is to offer so pithy but a complete summary of Buddhistic history, morals and viewpoint as to allow learners to fully grasp and be grateful of the good principle imparted by the Buddha, and hence make it simpler for them to learn the Dharma in its specifics. Detail is introduced in a catechism layout: inquiry and response. The topic has been collected into five sets: (1) The Life of the Buddha; (2) the Doctrine; (3) the Sangha, or monastic order; (4) a brief history of Buddhism, its Councils and propaganda; (5) some reconciliation of Buddhism with science. There is a highly informative appendix which present 14 basic Buddhist dogmas that were generally acknowledged during those times. Gautama Buddha also called as Siddh?rtha Gautama or the Buddha, after the name of Buddha, was a celibate and wise, on whose beliefs Buddhism was established. He is presumed to have dwelled and educated primarily in the eastern part of historical India earlier between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE. Gautama is the central character in Buddhism. He is acknowledged by Buddhists as a liberal educator who achieved the greatest Buddhahood, and gave out his views to assist sentimental creatures end renascence and hardships. Stories of his life, treatises, and monastic rules are held by Buddhists to have been abridged after he died and remembered by his devotees. Colonel Henry Steel Olcott was a United States military officer, journalist, barrister and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society. Henry was the first best known American of European lineage to create an official change to Buddhism. His following movements as president of the Theosophical Society assisted in making a revival in the analysis of Buddhism. Henry is regarded as a Buddhist modernist for his endeavors in construing Buddhism to a Westernized view.