Arthur Lillie: Difference between revisions

Lillie, christened as George Arthur Howard, was the youngest son of [[Sir John Scott Lillie]] and his wife Louisa, born at [[North End, Fulham]].<ref name=Burke>{{cite book |title=Burke, J. & J.B. The Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, London: 1841, p.178-9. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mUgN6-1Ig78C&q=Sir+John+Scott+Lillie+in+Burke%27s+Knightage+of+Great+Britain+and+Ireland&pg=PA121|last1 = Burke|first1 = John|year = 1841}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.suffolkpainters.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=1582 |title=Suffolk Painters|accessdate=5 May 2022}}</ref> He was an officer in the [[British Indian Army]]. While in India, he became a [[Buddhist]].<ref name=LW>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c04DAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+Influence+of+Buddhism+on+Primitive+Christianity%22&pg=PA223 | title=The Literary World|date= July 15, 1893 |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref> His books on religion were poorly received by scholars.<ref name=LW/><ref>Quote from July 15, 1893 Literary World: "[Lillie] works his theme with more industry than convincing skill or power. A wide reader without great power of mental digestion, his results are interesting but indecisive. We imagine that at many points in the vast literature gatherin around two great heroes or religious teachers there would be found resemblances or analogies more or less striking. ... What value as science these have may be shown in one, out of scores, taken at random (page 67: "'They parted my garments.' The Abbe Huc tells us (Voyages II, page 278) that on the death of the Bokte Lama his garments are cut into little strips and prized immensely." The connection between the gambling of executioner-soldiers for the victim's garments as their perquisite and the eager quest of holy relics of a saint by devout devotees is not clear to one studying the influence of Buddhism on early Christendom.  Most of the remainder of Mr. Lillie's little work of 180 pages is devoted to proving that in the New Testament there is an Essene and an anti-Essene Christ; modern biographers have failed in there attempts to combine the two."</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=uzRXxvPsylkC ''The Quest of the Historical Jesus''] By [[Albert Schweitzer]], John Bowden, 2001, {{ISBN|0-8006-3288-5}}, p.519 "The influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity, London 1893, is to be numbered among the fictitious works on the life of Jesus. The fictitious element consists in Jesus being made an Essene by the author, and Essenism being equated with Buddhism."</ref> Lillie appears to have written the original rule book for a Scottish [[croquet]] tournament, which, if so, continues to be his best-received work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scottishcroquet.org.uk/history/EarlyHistory.htm |title=The early history of the Scottish Croquet Championship |accessdate=2008-07-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827175138/http://www.scottishcroquet.org.uk/history/EarlyHistory.htm |archivedate=2008-08-27 }}</ref>