{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_tbc_tbc06_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_tbc_tbc06_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bud_tbc_tbc06_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/tbc/tbc06.htm","summary":"The Buddhist Catechism, by Henry S. Olcott [1908]\nThe popularity of this little work is proved by the constant demand for new editions, in English and other languages. In looking over the matter for the present edition, I have found very little to change or to add, for the work seems to present a very fair idea of the contents of Southern Buddhism; and, as my object is never to write an extended essay on the subject, I resist the temptation to wander off into amplifications of details which\u2026","tags":["Buddhist Catechism","Henry Steel Olcott","Sri Lankan Buddhism","Theosophical Society"],"text":null,"title":"The Buddhist Catechism: Preface to the Fortieth Edition","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","translated_text":null,"word_count":226}