Buddhism has many adherents throughout the world and there undoubtedly the need for an' authentic, authorized collection of the! scriptures. However, this is not tone man's task, but work for Buddhist Congress with members selected from various Buddhist centres.
Mr. Dwight Goddard has included in this Buddhist Bible the Tao Te! 'Ching (gigi) sometimes spoken, of a3 the "Canon of Reason and Virtue." said to have been written by Lao. Tzu and given to his disciple Kuan Yin-tze when the sage was Gnally leaving China for the Western' regions. While. there is some similarity between Taoism and Buddhism the Tao Teh Ching should not be includ ed. in a book purporting to be the teachings of Buddha. The author, however, thinks otherwise and in his preface states It Jp our earnest wish that the Tao-may became, one of tht Foundation stones of American and European Buddhism.
The Contributors Among the contributors to Mr. Dwight Goddard's Buddhist Bible is the Venerable Chao Kung (Trebitch Lincoln) to whom the author is indebted for his kind permission use the translation of the 116th Discourse from the collection of the Middle Discourses.
Among some of the other selections: included in the Buddhist Bible are, "The Life of the Historic Buddhs the late P. Laksheni Narasu; Word of Buddha," by the Venerable] Bhikkhu Nyanatilaka, the German Abbot of a large colony at Dodan-@uwa, Ceylon; "The Tevigga Sutra," translated by 7. W. Rhys Davids: "The Swiangama Sutra," translated by Bhukshu Wal-tao and Dwight Goddard; "The Lankavatara Seripture," translated by Dr. Suzuki. There are other selections, but the whole
Bible."—not warrant the title "A Buddhist A Persian Martyr Greatest Woman, Baha't tha. L" Root. Mustrated Publishing Committee, New York Were this book written primarily to show the life and influence of a nineteenth-century Persian woman who suffered martyrdom in her at tempt to emancipate women, it woul have resulted in a unique contribu-nto oriental biography. However the author's interest in her subject, Hadrat-i-Téhirih, Her Highness the Pure One, has been secondary to her interest in the promotion of the Baha'i faith. The reviewer does not take exception to the purpose of the book as conceived by the author. He merely stales that the ostensible pur-book seems to be of
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