Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

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

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selection of the parables and stories of Buddha. There is as much point to them now as in the days of Buddha, and they contain teachings as applicable to modern people as ever they were to the people of India."- The Call, San Francisco, Cal.
“There is here much information concerning Buddhism, which appears not as a religion but as a philosophy, presented as a system, but not as a very valuable one. When we have subtracted the absurdities, we shall not have left much more than a few ethical common-places." —Religious Herald, Hartford, Conn.
There is much of interest and of profit to be gleaned from this Gospel of Buddha by the Christian people of our land and age. The study of comparative religions is ever growing and ever widening and works like that of our author hasten the realisation of the grand ideal of a cosmic religion of truth."-Ægis, Univ. of Wis.
"A series of chapters of extracts from the words of Buddha, from what for the Buddhist corresponds to our Bible, so to express it. ... Its chapters are beautiful in form and noble in sentiment, It is not offered in hostility to Christianity, but for study in connexion with the latter and in the hope of promoting spiritual reflexion. Those who wish to consult such an epitome will find this book worth heed."- The Congregationalist, Boston.
"A volume which many readers will find full of fascinating interest. Dr. Carus is a deeply reverent and earnest student of religion, of all the religions of the world. ... Buddhism, he of course admits, is a religion which knows of no supernatural revelation. Christianity differs radically from Buddhism in this respect, in that it is not a mere philosophy but a spiritual power. ... Read with a pretty wakeful discrimination, this is a book which is fitted to widen one's thought as to the religious nature of man everywhere; to convince one of the truth that God has nowhere left himself without witness; and in the end to make the impression more vivid than ever as to the infinite transcendence of the Christ as not merely the teacher but the Saviour of the world."- The Advance, Chicago.
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