Note 394 — LECTURE VI. THE TWO RELIGIONS IN HISTORY.

Beal, Introduction to Fa-Hian, p. 42. In an important aspect the perversion of Christianity was worse than that of Buddhism. The Buddhist ascetics, though merciless to themselves, never tortured their vanquished opponents. There is no parallel to the Romish Inquisition and some Protestant atrocities in any of the annals of Buddhism.