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INTRODUCTION
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This book shows that Jainism and old Buddhism were one and the same religion, and that this religion was prevalent in India and outside of India from a very, very long time and that its influence was impressed upon the Jewish religion and Christianity also.
Intro. P. XIV. "The selection of these Short Studies has enabled us to virtually embrace and epitomize all the faiths and religious ideas of the world, as well as, to lay bare the deep-seated tap root from which they sprang, viz., the crude yatism, jati or asceticism of thoughtful Jatis or Jinas, who in man's earliest ages have in all lands separated themselves from the world and dwelt from pious motives in lone forests and mountain caves."
Intro. P. XIX. " It is clear also that the Gotama of early Tibetans, Mongols and Chinese must have been a Jaina ; for the latter say he lived in the 10th and 11th centuries B.C. Tibetans say he was born in 916, became a Buddha in 881, preached from his 35th year and died in 831 B.C. dates which closely correspond with those of the saintly Parsva."
Page 2. "Through what historical channels did Buddhism influence early Christianity ?. We must widen the inquiry by making it embrace Jainism-the undoubtedly prior faith of very many millions through untold millenniums—though one little known in Europe except to the few."
Page 20. “So slight seemed to Asoka the difference between Jains and Buddhists that he did not think it
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