Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

Author(s): Paul Carus
Publisher: Chicago Open Court Publishing Company

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Publications on Oriental Topics.m
"In der vorliegenden Arbeit giebt Dr. Paul Carus eine neue, sich an das Original treu anschliessende und doch recht lesbare Uebertragung in's Englische,
ein schätzbarer Beitrag zur vergleichenden Religions.kunde.''-Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung, Leipzig, Brockhaus (No. 34, Feuilleton).
“Kann den Religionsforschern empfohlen werden."-PROF. C. P. TIELE, of Leyden, in Theologischer Jahresbericht, XVIII., p. 447.
“Readers will find much to arouse their thought and admiration in its pages.”-Jewish Comment, Baltimore, Md.
"Dr. Carus took a considerable onus on himself when he threw aside all previous renderings of the great thinker Lao-Tze, and embarked on the task that was recently placed before the public. He has trodden boldly over the labors of Legge and Chalmers, not to mention other and lesser lights who have essayed to enter the lists. If his conception is bold, however, his reward seems to have been gained. We have, as a result, what is an excellent translation open possibly to criticism-but then Sinologues never will lie down together-but withal satisfying." -London and China Telegraph, July, 1899.
There are in addition a nuinber of Japanese periodicals which give careful and detailed reviews of Dr. Carus's translation of the Tao Teh King. We mention among them the Tetsugaku Zasshi (Journal of Philosophy), Tokyo; the Mujinto (Eternal Light), Kyoto; the Bukkyo (i. e., Buddhism), Tokyo, and the Shi do Kwai Kwai Shi (Reports of the Association of Seekers after Truth), Omi.