| Detail of Japanese Imploring a Divinity, by Jean-Leon Gerome [19th cent.] (Public Domain Image) | Buddhism and Immortality by William Sturgis Bigelow [1908] |
This extended essay was the 1908 Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality. Bigelow explores the nature of Karma, and the ultimate mental state, Nirvana. He relates this to concepts expressed by Western thinkers such as Darwin and Emerson.