The Inner Teachings Of The Philosophies and Religions of India by Yogi Ramacharaka William Walker Atkinson

Author:Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson [Unbekannt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Esoterik
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2014-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

Our Meditation for the coming month is:

"TRUTH IS THAT WHICH IS; SPIRIT IS THAT WHICH TRUTH IS; TRUTH IS SPIRIT; SPIRIT IS TRUTH; TRUTH SPIRIT IS ALL THERE IS—” ALL ELSE IS UNTRUTH."

THE SEVENTH LESSON - Buddhism.

The term "Buddhism" is applied both to the philosophy of Gautama Buddha, and also to the vast system of religion which has been evolved from his teachings, with its accompaniment or elaborate ceremonial and ritual, and which counts its followers to the number of perhaps three hundred million (300,000,000), principally in China, Japan and Thibet, and including about ten million (10,000,000) followers in India, chiefly in Burmah —” the number of Buddhists in India proper, the land of its founder, having decreased until the religion is practically dead in the land of its origin, its philosophy being kept alive principally by its influence upon the surviving philosophies. In India, it still numbers followers among the Northern tribes, and is quite flourishing in the whole Indo-Chinese Peninsula, Burmah, Ceylon, Nepal, etc., but is almost unknown in the centre of India. It claims millions of followers in China and Japan, which are its great strongholds, and it has another great centre north of the Himalayas, in Thibet, where it is the prevailing religion, under the name of Lamaism. It is the popular religion among the entire Mongolian sections and peoples of Asia, and is found to the extreme north of Siberia, and even in Lapland. But the present form of the Buddhist religion, particularly as it appears among the Japanese and Chinese, and in Thibet —” and the North generally—” has very little resemblance to the original teachings of Gautama. The Buddhists of Burmah adhere more closely to the orthodox teachings, but even there Buddhism is held more as a religious system and "church," than as a philosophical system. And yet the original philosophy of Gautama Buddha exerted a wonderful influence on the philosophical thought of India —” and having played its part, it passed from the scene and now lives only in the shape of "a religion," and as the basis for the philosophical conceptions of others, East and West.

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