Buddhism is to give a short, popular description of the Buddha’s life and doctrine. The old, genuine Buddhism does not exist any more anywhere in its original purity, and in the land of its birth it has even entirely disappeared through persecutions by Brahmins and Mohammedans. As this treatise aims at presenting a popular account of Buddhism, I have not appended references for the extracts from the Tipitaka which are given in quotation marks, but these are ...
