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and a multitude of other statements were full of suggestions to 

 larger thought regarding the development of sacred literature in 

 general. Even the eminent Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop 

 Bigandet, was obliged to confess in his scholarly life of Buddha 

 these striking similarities between the Buddhist scriptures and 

 those which it was his mission to expound, though by this hon- 

 est statement his own further promotion was rendered impossible. 

 Fausboll also found the story of the judgment of Solomon im- 

 bedded in Buddhist folklore; and Sir Edwin Arnold, by his poem, 

 The Light of Asia, spread far and wide a knowledge of the antici- 

 pation in Buddhism of some ideas which, down to a recent period, 

 were considered distinctively Christian. Imperfect as the revela- 

 tions thus made of an evolution of religious beliefs, institutions, 

 and literature still are, they have not been without an important 

 bearing upon the newer conception of our own sacred books : 

 more and more manifest has become the interdependence of all 

 human development ; * more and more clear the truth that Chris- 



* For Hue and Gabet, see Souvenirs d'un Voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet, la Chine, 

 English translation by Hazlitt, London, 1851 ; also supplementary work by Hue. For 

 Bishop Bigandet, see his Life of Buddha, passim. As authority for the fact that his book 

 was condemned at Rome and his own promotion prevented, the present writer has the 

 bishop's own statement. For notices of similarities between Buddhist and Christian insti- 

 tutions, ritual, etc., see Rhys Davids's Buddhism, London, 1894, passim ; also Lillie, Bud- 

 dhism and Christianity especially chaps, ii and xi. It is somewhat difficult to under- 

 stand how a scholar so eminent as Mr. Rhys Davids should have allowed the Society for 

 Promoting Christian Knowledge, which published his book, to eliminate all the interesting 

 details regarding the birth of^Buddha, and to give so fully everything that seemed to tell 

 against the Roman Catholic Church ; cf. p. 2*7 with p. 246 et seq. For more thorough pres- 

 entation of the development of features in Buddhism and Brahmanism which anticipate 

 those of Christianity, see Schroeder, Indiens Literatur und Cultur, Leipsic, 1887, espe- 

 cially Vorlesung xxvii and following. For full details of the canonization of Buddha under 

 the name of St. Josaphat, see Fausboll, Buddhist Birth Stories, translated by Rhys Davids, 

 London, 1880, pp. xxxvi and following; also Prof. Max Muller in the Contemporary Review 

 for July, 1890 ; also the article Barlaam and Josaphat, in ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica. For the more recent and full accounts, correcting some minor details in the 

 foregoing authorities, see Kuhn, Barlaam und Joasaph, Munich, 1893, especially pp. 82, 83 ; 

 also Zotenberg, cited by Gaston Paris in the Revue de Paris for June, 1895. For the trans- 

 literation between the appellation of Buddha and the name of the saint, see Fausboll and 

 Sayce as above, p. xxxvii, note ; and for the multitude of translations of the work ascribed 

 to St. John of Damascus, see Table III on p. xcv. The reader who is curious to trace 

 up a multitude of the myths and legends of early Hebrew and Christian mythology to 

 their more eastern and southern sources can do so in Bible Myths, New York, 1883. The 

 present writer gladly avails himself of the opportunity to thank the learned Director of 

 the National Library at Palermo, Monsignor Marzo, for his kindness in showing him the 

 very interesting church of San Giosafat in that city ; and to the custodians of the church 

 for their readiness to allow photographs of the saint to be taken. The writer's visit was 

 made in April, 1895, and copies of the photographs may be seen in the library of Cornell 

 University. As to the more rare editions of Barlaam and Josaphat, a copy of the Icelandic 

 translation is to be seen in the remarkable collection of Prof. Willard Fiske, at Florence. 



