The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons

ADYAR PAMPHLETS No. 15 The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons BY H. S. OLCOTT THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE ADYAR, MADRAS, INDIA _First Edition: May 1912_ _Second Edition: Sept. 1919_ The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons The thoughtful student, in scanning the religious history of the race, has one fact continually forced upon his notice, _viz_., that there is an invariable tendency to deify whomsoever shows himself superior to the weakness of our common humanity. Look where we will, we find the saint-like man exalted into a divine personage and worshipped for a god. Though perhaps misunderstood, reviled and even persecuted while living, the apotheosis is almost sure to come after death: and the v…

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