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Author Olcott, Henry Steel, 1832-1907.

Title The Buddhist catechism / Henry Steel Olcott
Published [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages)
Contents Title; Contents; Dedication; Certificate; Preface to the Thirty-Third Edition; Preface to the Thirty-Sixth Edition; Preface to the Fortieth Edition; Preface to the Forty-Second Edition; Part I The Life of the Buddha; Part II The Dharma or Doctrine; Part III The Sangha; Part IV The Rise and Spread of Buddhism; Part V Buddhism and Science; Appendix; Bibliography; Endnotes
Summary A founding member of the Theosophical Society, and perhaps the first well-known European to convert to Buddhism, Henry Steel Olcott made a lasting contribution with his Buddhist Catechism of 1881. Seeing Buddhism with a Westernized scientific eye, the work is given in the same question and answer structure used in the Christian Catechism. David McMahan wrote of Olcott that he "allied Buddhism with scientific rationalism in implicit criticism of orthodox Christianity, but went well beyond the tenets of conventional science in extrapolating from the Romantic and Transcendentalist influenced 'occult sciences' of the nineteenth century."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141)
Subject Buddhism -- Catechisms.
Buddhism -- Creeds.
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
Buddhism
Genre/Form Catechisms
Creeds
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781775415275
1775415279