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...Buddhists are not essentially missionaries. A Buddhist will not interfere if he sees a man about to cross a bridge known to be condemned. He will suppose, courteously, that the man knows what he is doing. However should the man inquire if the bridge be safe, the Buddhist will tell him. Similarly Buddhists do not generally interfere with other people's religion nor try to lead them from paths they have chosen...
...also another purpose: to establish in Europe or in the U.S. a Buddhist Institute. In Paris a grant of land has already been given him. But Tai Hsu has not yet accepted. The Institute's purpose will be to clarify Buddhism to the Western world, to represent Buddhism as a religion nowhere antagonistic to scientific theories...
...Buddhists believe in reincarnation and, therefore, that life ceases never. When a Buddhist becomes enlightened and good he may himself become a Buddha. Then he reaches Nirvana where there is rest and surcease from the pains of life and death...
Familiar even to Western minds is the endlessly-turning Buddhist wheel-of-life. The wheel represents the cycle of conception, life, death, ascent to a higher plane (or descent to a lower); then reincarnation; and then, again, conception, life, death, ascent...
...Certain Buddhist doctrines read curiously like pages from modern scientific treatises. The Buddhist Sutra anticipates the theory of evolution in such statements as "all life emerges from a certain concentration of matter in the form of a nucleus" (i.e., cell). Professor Einstein holds that perception is generally false because relative. Buddhists likewise deny truth to all appearances...