ABSTRACT
India lies between the Asiatic north and the Pacific south, between Tibet and Ceylon. Ceylon is as strangely different from India as is Tibet. Curiously enough, at either end one finds the "spoor of the elephant," as the Pali Canon calls the teaching of the Lord Buddha. Indian religion is like a vimana, or pagoda. The gods climb over one another like ants, from the elephants carved on the base to the abstract lotus which crowns the top of the building. Buddha has disappeared from Indian life and religion more than people could ever imagine Christ disappearing in the aftermath of some future catastrophe to Christianity, more even than the Greco-Roman religions have disappeared from present-day Christianity. India's civilization and psychology resemble her temples, which represent the universe in their sculptures, including man and all his aspects and activities, whether as saint or brute. India represents the other way of civilizing man, the way without suppression, without violence, without rationalism.
