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The book that launched American "Beat Zen!" In a 1954 letter to poet Allen Ginsberg (Howl, Kaddish), emerging literary giant Jack Kerouac (On The Road, The Dharma Bums)wrote that Dwight Goddard's A BUDDHIST BIBLE was "by far the best book" available on the subject of Buddhism. Its clear, reader-friendly elucidation of such important Zen Scriptures as The Diamond Sutra, The Prajna Paramita Sutra and The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch opened the d...

Dwight Goddard's collection of translations of a cross-section of Buddhist traditions was a fundamental part of the importation of Buddhism into the USA and then, through the work of the Beat Poets that the book influenced, throughout the West as a whole. Goddard had originally been an engineer but after his wife's death, when he was twenty-nine years old, he entered the Hartford Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1894 and was sent to C...

Dwight Goddard's collection of translations of a cross-section of Buddhist traditions was a fundamental part of the importation of Buddhism into the USA and then, through the work of the Beat Poets that the book influenced, throughout the West as a whole. Goddard had originally been an engineer but after his wife's death, when he was twenty-nine years old, he entered the Hartford Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1894 and was sent to Ch...

How much contact did Jesus have with Buddhism early in his life? In this 1927 work, Dwight Goddard compares the lives and teachings of Christ and Gautama, the young Buddha, giving a context to the two religions and exploring their historical and theological intersections. Key to his investigation is a study of the Essenes, a semi-Buddhist Jewish sect that had a direct influence on both Jesus and John the Baptist. Also included is a fascinating...

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Excerpt from Eminent Engineers: Brief Biographies of Thirty-Two of the Inventors and Engineers Who Did Most to Further Mechanical Progress These short biographies were originally written from 1903 to 1906 and issued in monthly numbers by Wyman Gordon, manufacturers of drop forgings, Worcester, Mass. And Cleveland, Ohio. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenb...

Excerpt from The Good News of a Spiritual Realm This book is an interweaving of the Four Gospels into one connected account of the Life and the Teach ings of Jesus of Nazareth, in which the effort is made by free translation and paraphrase to bring out the unity and the reasonableness of his life and teachings from a modern point of view. It has been very unfortunate that Jesus' life and teachings have been so largely studied as a part of th...

Excerpt from Living Waters or Messages of Joy: With an Introduction The characteristic religious literature of today is marked by an increasing recognition of the spiritual realm as a cosmic reality. The familiar emphasis on a Hebrew anthropomorphic Jehovah and the consequent legalistic symbols of sin and righteousness, judgment and forgiveness, is passing, and the ancient but less familiar Greek tradition of God as the One Source is becoming...

Excerpt from Jesus and the Problem of Human Life: A Threefold SermonN the early part of 1915 there was sent out to personal friends of the author an inter weaving of the Four Gospels into one con.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...

In this clarion translation of Laotzu's Tao Te Ching, first published in 1919, Goddard brings the complexity and depth of the ancient philosopher's poetry into the English language, his great love for the topic overcoming the necessary shortcomings of translation. There are three concepts that are essential to the Tao Te Ching-Tao, Te, and Wu Wei-that all have complex meanings that cannot be directly translated, but spiritual seekers and those...

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Excerpt from Love in Creation and Redemption: A Study in the Teachings of Jesus Compared With Modern ThoughtSayings of Jesus by Matthew found its way to Alexandria, and our best record of it is found embodied in the Synoptic Gospel accord ing to Matthew, and, possibly rearranged some. What by Luke to be more chronological, and then woven into his Gospel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic book...

A wide selection of readings from Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, and modern sources inteded to provide the reader with a foundation in classical Buddhist thought.

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