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Early Buddhism though propagated in different provincial dialects could not be appreciated by the common-folk in general. The insistence on retirement from worldly life was a great handicap in the way of its popularity; so during the first century of its existence, it remained confined to the recluses and monasteries, and hardly reached the home and the hearth. It was perhaps about a century after Buddha’s death that the religion became ...
The origin and spread of Buddhism has been a landmark in the history of Greater India (Maha Bharata or Brhattara Bharata) the boundaries of which covered a large part of Asia. As stated earlier, Sakyamuni, the Buddha, was the inheritor of an ancient, rich and varied cultural tradition of a very high order and he formulated and established a new culture out of it which was theoretically enlightening and practically redeeming from the labyrinth of suffering, ...
It may be said that the Buddha is one of the most revolutionary thinkers and the holiest persons ever lived on the earth. He has been a beacon light not only for India or Asia but for the entire world. His advocacy of pursuit of Prajna and practice of Karuna, his vision of self-sameness with everyone (Paratma Samata), and zealous longing for eradication of suffering of others as one's own (Paratma Parivartana) cross all barriers of race, creed, country and even ...