Navayana: Buddhism and Modern Thought [antikvár]

Sabbadanam Dhammadanam Jinati. {The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.) INTRODUCTION This book is an exposition of Theravada Buddhism, and an application of its teachings to the problems of modern times. It is written, as far as may be, in plain language ; but where technical terms are unavoidable for lack of corresponding English wrords, they are fully explained. Buddhism is both a religion and a philosophy. Its doctrines are found to have anticipated in remarkable ways many of the conclusions of modern science, and the method of that rationalist school of thought which is gaining ground in the Western world to-day. For these reasons, and because of its essential naturalism, as opposed to supernaturalism, and its humanism, Buddhism, although one of the oldest religions in the world, has a real and vital message for our times. There are some who may consider Buddhism to be merely a curiosity of antiquity, or that it is a cult suited only for the dreamy Orient; that 9