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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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THE PLACE OF BUDDHISM IN THE DEVELOPEMENT
OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
PAOIS
Right and wrong uses of the comparative study of religious belief
Unnecessary to discover that we are not the sole possessore of
truth..........2
Similarity of belief no proof of direct borrowing... 3
Universality of any belief no test of its truth.... 4
True task of the historian of religious belief ... 3
Is there a Science of Religions"!.....10
Buddhism really modern.......11
Ideas among which Buddhism was born .12
Animism.........13
Polytheism..........14
The "soul" and future life......15
Transmigration .........17
Monotheism.........18
Pantheism..........19
Pessimism.........21
Caste ideas..........22
Other reformers before Buddhism (but on the old lines) . 26
The Upanishads.........27
Buddhism a radical change of standpoint . 28
It is independent of the theory of a soul" .29
General resemblances in the religious history of the world . 30 |
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