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CHAPTER THREE
Summary
In reading the preceding story of the life of Issa (Jesus Christ) we are on the one hand struck by the resemblance between some of its principal passages and the biblical and evangelical story and on the other hand by the contradictions equally remarkable which often differentiate the Buddhist version from the Old and New Testaments.
To explain this singularity it is necessary to take into account the times when these facts were consigned to writing.
We have been taught, it is true, since our childhood that the Pentateuch was written by Moses, but the careful investigation of contemporary scholars have shown conclusively that in the days of Moses and even long after him there existed no writing in those countries whose shores were washed by the Mediterranean, except the Egyptian hieroglyphics and the uniform inscriptions which are still found in the ruins of Babylon. But we know, on the contrary, that the alphabet and parchment were known in China and India long before Moses. Of this we have sufficient proofs.
The sacred books of “The Religion of Savants” teach us that the alphabet was invented in China in 2800 B. C, by Fou-si,
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