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| L. ADAMS BECK |
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| The Perfume of the Rainbow |
| The Treasure of Ho |
| The Ninth Vibration |
| The Way of Stars |
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A GANDHARA BUDDHA AT HOTI-MARDAN
THE
SPLENDOUR OF ASIA
The Story and Teaching of the Buddha
BY
L. ADAMS BECK
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1926
Copyright, 1926,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK
I dedicate this book to
ELLERY SEDGWICK
WHO INSPIRED ME WITH THE IDEA
OF WRITING IT.
PREFACE
I have endeavoured in this book to make not only the storybut the teaching of the Buddha intelligible and human, so thatthose who wish to understand one of the greatest facts inhistory may not find themselves entangled in the mazes ofscholastic terms, and may perhaps be enabled to realize itsstrange coincidences with modern psychology and certainscientific verities. The teaching of the Indian Prince hasindeed nothing to dread from science. Sir Edwin Arnold’sbeautiful “Light of Asia” ends very early in that great ministry,an