The Dawn And The Day: The Buddha And The Christ

I give as an introduction an outline of the golden, silver, brazen and iron ages, as described by the ancient poets and believed in by all antiquity, as it was in the very depths of the darkness of the iron age that our great light appeared in Northern India. The very denseness of the darkness of the age in which he came makes the clearness of the light more wonderful, and accounts for the joy with which it was received and the rapidity with which it spread. Not to enter into the niceties of chronological questions, the mission of Buddha may be roughly said to have commenced about five hundred years before the commencement of our era, and with incessant labors and long and repeated journeys to have lasted forty-five years, when at about the age of eighty he died, or, as the Buddhists more truthfully and more beautifully say, entered Nirvana.

• | Author: Henry Thayer Niles
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1533493650
• | ISBN-13: 9781533493651