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Article: A Short History of Buddhism.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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Studies in Comparative Religion in Oxford are heavily dependent upon the 'J. Estlin Carpenter' Collecton at Manchester College (chiefly donated between 1921 and 1927) and the works donated to Lady Margaret Hall in 1946, in memory of J. G. Jennings (1866-1941). Both of these invaluable archives are rich in materials about Buddhism, whose common ground with Christianity -- particularly its tenets of pacifism, reverence for life, meditation, and monasticism -- has over the last half-century been increasingly recognized, despite (or perhaps because of) the consumerism of the contemporary societies of the West. We have largely inherited from the nineteenth century our Western ...