Buddhism In Greece

A legend of one of Buddha's earlieet lupils tells us that the young man used ;o pass the whole raiiíy season in his palace surronnded by dancing girls. Unce he saw a bevy of them asleep in unbecoining attitudes, and he woke up and said, "ïhis will never do." So lie oined Buddha. Now, a life of heavy ieat, long rainy seasons and unceasing dancing girla is very well calculated to oring a man to suicide or to Buddhism. As far as Buddhism rneans unselfish dndness (and it demands a great deal of ;hat from a true disciple), it is exactly as good as any other religión which makes the saine requirement. Bnt as far as it is pedantic, tnorbid, puerile and supei'stitious, busy with arithnicticiil strings of propositions, with austerities, ending in self hypnotism, with an ideal of universal suicide, it is difficult to see how the natives of a températe climate can acquiesce in the developed doctrines of Buddhism. Had Gotama come to Greece and preached nt the Olympic games it is unlikely that he would have made a single convert. -