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The Buddhist Catechism: Preface to the Thirty-Third Edition

Buddhist CatechismHenry Steel OlcottSri Lankan BuddhismTheosophical Society

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The Buddhist Catechism, by Henry S. Olcott [1908] In the working out of my original plan, I have added more questions and answers in the text of each new English edition of the catechism, leaving it to its translators to render them into whichever of the other vernaculars they may be working in. The unpretending aim in view is to give so succinct and yet comprehensive a digest of Buddhistic history, ethics and philosophy as to enable beginners to understand and appreciate the noble ideal taught…