BUDDHISM
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MISCONCEPTIONS:
OWING TO INADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE ENLIGHTENED ONE,
NUMEROUS ERROREOUS OPINIONS CONCERNING IT ARE AT PRESENT CURRENT AMONG
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PEOPLES.
UNFORTUNATELY,TOO,THERE HAS BEEN,ON THE PART OF OPPOSING RELIGIONS,MUCH
MISREPRESENTATION,SOME DELIBERATE,SOME ARISING FROM IGNORANCE OF THE SUBTLE
TRANSCENDENTALISM WHICH MAKES BUDDHISM MORE A PHILOSOPHY THAN A RELIGION,
ALTHOUGH IT IS BOTH.

AS A PHILOSOPHY,AND ALSO AS A SCIENCE OF LIFE,BUDDHISM IS MORE COMPREHENSIVE
THAN ANY PHILOSOPHICAL OR SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM YET DEVELOPED IN THE WEST;FOR IT
EMBRACES LIFE IN ALL ITS MULTITUDINOUS MANIFESTATIONS THROUGHOUT INNUMERABLE
STAGES OF EXISTENCE,FROM THE LOWEST OF SUB-HUMAN CREATURES TO BEINGS FAR IN
EVOLUTIONARY ADVANCE OF MAN. IN OTHER WORDS,BUDDHISM VIEWS LIFE AS AN
INSEPARABLE WHOLE,BEGINNING LESS AND ENDLESS.