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Harvard Religious Union. Buddha and his teaching. Professor C. R. Lanman. Holden Chapel...
...call attention to the meeting of the Harvard Religious Union to be held in Holden Chapel this evening. Professor C. R. Lanman will address the meeting on certain points connected with Buddha and Buddhism, with special reference to what Buddha was, what was his nature and what were his views. The Union hopes that in spite of the mid-year examinations this meeting may be well attended. The subject on which Professor Lanman will speak, though not widely known about in college, is interesting and worthy of attention...
...FRIDAY.Harvard Religious Union. Buddha and his teaching. Professor C. R. Lanman. Holden Chapel...
...teaching by stories is deeply rooted in humanity and has been used by all great teachers and leaders. Buddha, Socrates, and ascending in the ages Martin Luthur and Abraham Lincoln used it. The Lord taught in this same way by the use of his parables. Professor Palmer then went on to mark out the character of the parable and to define the meaning of the word, leaving until his next lecture the discussion of what Christ really taught by his parables. Parable really means a comparison or likeness, and as in all speech we are simply executing comparison the word...
...them we see mere gropers after the divine, until the greatest Prophet of all comes, Jesus Christ. The wise reformers who came before him proclaimed the nearer and nearer approach of the Great Light. At last it came, and the blackness of death was illuminated. Buddha taught a brotherhood and equality but only in misery; Christ teaches an equality in the inheritance of Divine Love. Into His life Christ condensed the Light which was to guide mortals forever; from the Cross he gave the Light which brings the complete victory over death which Plato and Socrates in their wildest dreams...