Excerpt from Buddhist Popular Lectures Delivered in Ceylon in 1907
These lectures were delivered in Ceylon to Buddhist audiences. Some were to village people, and were spoken and translated sentence by sentence. Others were to boys. Some are therefore exceedingly simple, and they are published for the people to whom they were delivered, and not for the literary and cultured world. There is a small priestly party in Ceylon - happily a diminishing one - which bitterly resents any speaking on Buddhism by anyone who, like myself, is not a professed Buddhist, and submissive to their priestly authority. But the nobler types welcome all reverent speech, and hail the assistance of any who recognise the greatness of the Lord Buddha, and desire to serve His religion. To the Theosophical Society is due the revival of Buddhism in Ceylon, and its President-Founder started and guided the great educational movement which has brought back the island to Buddhism. It is therefore fitting that one of my early presidential tours should have been in Ceylon, and of that tour this little book is the outcome.
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