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| | "The Light of Asia" by Edwin Arnold (The Life of Gautama Buddha) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | This volume is dutifully inscribed to the sovereign, grand master, and companions of The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India by the author. |
 | | In the following Poem I have sought, by the medium of an imaginary Buddhist votary, to depict the life and character and indicate the philosophy of that noble hero and reformer, Prince Gautama of India, the founder of Buddhism. |
 | | A generation ago little or nothing was known in Europe of this great faith of Asia, which had nevertheless existed during twenty-four centuries, and at this day surpasses, in the number of its followers and the area of its prevalence, any other form of creed. |
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