The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy

By the eleventh century A.D. Hinayana flourished in Ceylon, Burma, Siam and Cambodia. Mystic Buddhism developed in Tibet, Mahayana grew in China. In Japan the whole of Buddhism became the living and active faith of the mass of the people. The present study relates to Japanese Buddhism, as in Japan alone the whole of Buddhism has been preserved. The author presents Buddhist Philosophy in an ideological sequence, but it is not the sequence in the development of ideas. It is rather the systema...