Some Opinions about Buddhism

The age immediately before the advent of Buddha is the darkest age of the Indian History. It is the age of backwardness regarding the thinking power in India. There was complete blind belief towards scriptures.

From the view of morality also it is the age of complete darkness.

Prof. M. S. Baghavacharya

In Veda we get prayers, praises and worship.

In Buddhism we get for the first time the teaching of steering the mind to the right paths.

Buddhism attracted our attention towards the latent energy within man.

J. R. Jackson

Buddha is the only person among all the founders of religion who has the glory of understanding the latent energy in man, which can lead us to emancipation without any external held Buddha did not degrade the role of man by loading in him the external power but he raised the man to the realm of knowledge and universal love and kindness to all beings.

Prof. David Godard.

In no other religion knowledge has been given so much importance as in Buddhism. Again in no other religion ignorance has been dispised and denounced as in Buddhism.

No other religion give so much importance to keep ones own eyes open.

E. J. Miller.

With the help of the basic and powerful instruments of Buddhism the theory of nonexistence of God and of the non-existence of the permanent soul the thorny bushes of the non Buddhist acceptances have been kept clean. So in order to steer the mind really in right direction, the greatest help comes from the power of thinking.

Buddhism is the best means for the fulfillment of social needs.

According to Buddhism, the virtues consists not in reading religious books, but in putting into practice the sayings contained in these books, but in putting into practice the saying contained in these books.

By putting into practice the following paths stated in Buddhism all human tendencies are extinguished. To load such Flawless life happily is called Nirvana.