Santayana and Buddhism: The Choice between the Cross and the Bo Tree.

From: Buddhist-Christian Studies | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: Kuntz, Paul Grimley | Copyright information

Santayana honors Gotama Buddha as a profound religious genius as well as an original philosopher. Gotama's way is genuine spiritual wisdom, and constantly compared with Christian mysticism as a way of enlightenment. It is therefore understandable that a Spaniard, who learned his catechism in Avila, and who was educated in the New England of Emerson and other Transcendentalists who honored Oriental wisdom, should have so much to say about the Buddha and Buddhism.

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