The Buddhist Catechism
The Buddhist Catechism
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This work is in the public domain. The author died in 1907; in Sri Lanka copyright lasts for the author's life plus 70 years, so the work has been free since 1978.
About this book
The question-and-answer summary of Buddhist teaching that Colonel Olcott wrote for Buddhist schools in Ceylon in 1881, checked and approved by Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera. It went through more than forty editions and was used in Sinhala schools for decades; this is the author's final revised text.
- Language of the book
- English
- Category
- Buddhism
- First published
- 1881
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