Buddhism Comparing with Christianity. Part 1

Publisher Marketing: Vladimir Kozhevnikov (1852 1917), a Russian cultural historian and publicist. In 1868 1873 was a volunteer at Moscow University. In 1875, in the library of the Rumyantsev Museum Kozhevnikov I met with NF Fedorov and became his follower. For 14 years (1880) studied the history of the culture and philosophy of the largest libraries in Europe. Collecting rare books, later bequeathed his library (8 ths. Tons.) Rumyantsev Museum. In the late 1900s Kozhevnikov moving closer to a group of Moscow theologians and religious philosophers. The result of the religious and philosophical studies of Kozhevnikov was the book "Buddhism compared with Christianity," in which was based on a public lecture given by the author in Medvednikovskoy gymnasium in Moscow and meetings "Mug seeking Christian education" of 1908-1909. They were directed primarily against those directions in European religious thought, which began to have an impact on the minds of Buddhism in Russia an apology, trying to put a question directly to downplay the uniqueness of the Christian religion. Kozhevnikov argues against leftist criticism of the biblical background Bunsen, author of "The Gospel of Jesus in his relationship to the Tales of the Buddha and the Buddha's teaching" (1882) Seidel, Edmunds and others. Lectures preceded by an in-depth study of the author of biographies of Buddha and comparative religious studies literature of those years.