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'''''The Gospel of Buddha''''' is an 1894 book by [[Paul Carus]]. It is modeled on the [[New Testament]] and tells the story of [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]] through [[parable]]s. It was an important tool in introducing [[Buddhism]] to the west and is used as a teaching tool by some Asian sects.<br />
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Carus believed that the modern world required a new Religion of Science. By the 1890s, inspired by the meetings and conversations at the [[Parliament of the World's Religions]] in 1893, he had decided that Buddhism was the closest faith to his ideal and created ''The Gospel of Buddha'' to popularize the religion in the West.<ref name="Lopez1995">{{cite book|author=Donald S. Lopez|title=Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gv0PxVz2desC&pg=PA118|date=15 August 1995|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-49308-4|pages=118}}</ref><br />
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The work was assembled from existing English translations of Buddhists texts, with significant amendments and reworkings.<ref name="Snodgrass2003">{{cite book|author=Judith Snodgrass|title=Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfqk0hvz_NoC&pg=PA233|year=2003|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-5458-7|pages=233–}}</ref> His selection of texts favoured Buddhism as a philosophy without any supernatural elements. While criticized by contemporary scholars, this interpretation proved popular in the West, leading to a number of reprintings. It also influenced the development of [[Buddhist modernism|Modern Buddhism in the 18th century]] in East Asia, notably in a Japanese translation of the book by [[D. T. Suzuki]].<ref name="Lopez1995" /><br />
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==Online versions==<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/gospelbuddhaacc00compgoog/page/n8/mode/2up archive.org]<br />
* [http://www.mountainman.com.au/buddha/ mountainman.com.au]<br />
* [https://reluctant-messenger.com/gospel_buddha/preface.htm reluctant-messenger.com]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171103023648/http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/bud-gosp.txt its.brooklyn.cuny.edu] (archived)<br />
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