India In Primitive Christianity
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Church, Church History, Eastern Religions, Buddhism, Inspiration & Meditation, Spirituality
| Author: | Arthur Lillie | ISBN: | 1230000029000 |
| Publisher: | AppsPublisher | Publication: | November 5, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Arthur Lillie |
| ISBN: | 1230000029000 |
| Publisher: | AppsPublisher |
| Publication: | November 5, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
India in Primitive Christianity
by Arthur Lillie
What are the links between Buddhism and early Christianity?
THE first edition of this work, issued in 1893, had an unexpected success, especially abroad. In France, the eminent Sanskrit scholar, M. Léon de Rosny, reviewed it very favourably in the "XXme Siêcle" in a long article that gave a digest of the subject.
He said: "The astonishing points of contact (ressemblances étonnantes) between the popular legend of Buddha and that of Christ, the almost absolute similarity of the moral lessons given to the world, at five centuries’ interval, between these two peerless teachers of the human race, the striking affinities between the customs of the Buddhists and of the Essenes, of whom Christ must have been a disciple, suggest at once an Indian origin to Primitive Christianity."
India in Primitive Christianity
by Arthur Lillie
What are the links between Buddhism and early Christianity?
THE first edition of this work, issued in 1893, had an unexpected success, especially abroad. In France, the eminent Sanskrit scholar, M. Léon de Rosny, reviewed it very favourably in the "XXme Siêcle" in a long article that gave a digest of the subject.
He said: "The astonishing points of contact (ressemblances étonnantes) between the popular legend of Buddha and that of Christ, the almost absolute similarity of the moral lessons given to the world, at five centuries’ interval, between these two peerless teachers of the human race, the striking affinities between the customs of the Buddhists and of the Essenes, of whom Christ must have been a disciple, suggest at once an Indian origin to Primitive Christianity."
