A Special Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Buddhist Paintings, Lent (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Special Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Buddhist Paintings, LentWhether the former be the primitive state of Buddhism, as some scholars assert. Is rather a matter for historians than for the student of oriental culture. Their procedure would be analogous to that of an Asiatic student of Christianity who, having ascertained from meagre docu ments the condition of the Church in its first century, should thereupon disregard the wealth and power of its subsequent evolution, its part in European history, its capacity for adaptation to the infinite needs of human ity, as so much spurious perversion and accumulation. Christianity and Buddhism as well are all that they have become.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.