ABSTRACT
The great practical aim of Buddha’s teaching was to subdue the lusts of the flesh and the cravings of self, and this could only be attained by the practice of virtue. In place of rites and sacrifices Buddha prescribed a code of practical morality as the means of salvation. The life and teachings of Buddha are also beginning to exercise a new influence on religious thought in Europe and America. Buddhism will stand forth as the embodiment of the eternal verity that as a man sows he will reap, associated with the duties of mastery over self and kindness to all men, and quickened into a popular religion by the example of a noble and beautiful life. By the great law of Karma Buddha explained the inequalities and apparent injustice of man’s estate in this world as the consequence of acts in the past, while Christianity compensates those inequalities by rewards in the future.
