Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — Buddhism in Europe. [ARTICLE]

Buddhism in Europe.

A Buddhist temple is being built in Paris by a rich English lady, who is a convert to the great religion of the East. Buddhism has more votaries than the Christian and Mohammedan world combined. As originally pro-

pounded it was a purely secular faith, which taught morality, but denied, or rather ignored, the existence of a God or the fact of a life hereafter. So-called advanced thinkers in Europe and America, who call themselves Agnostics, hold very similar views; but Buddhism in the East is a* corrupted religion, and involves many superstitions which are repulsive to civilized people. But a church in which will be taught the original doctrines of Gautama would not differ very much from the teaching from many radical rostrums. During the international exposition, when many Hindoos were in Paris, there was a temporary Buddhist temple in the vicinity of the Champ de Mars; but the new temple is to be a permanent one, and will be an object of great curiosity to travelers from other parts of the world. — Demorest’s Monthly.