External diffusion—Both religions missionary—Vastly different in respect
of their messages—Buddhist endeavour to perpetuate a system—Christian
endeavour to set forth and interpret the facts of a miraculous
life—Effect of belief in Christ’s continued presence upon the
Church—Rapid diffusion of Christianity during the first four
centuries—Condition of Buddhism during a similar period—Spread of
Christianity after Constantine—Spread of Buddhism after Asoka—Difference
in the peoples affected by both religions—Inferences—Internal
history—Buddhism and Brahmanism—Christianity and Judaism—In Buddhism an
early abandonment of fundamental principles manifest—Recoil of human
nature from its Atheism into Polytheism and Tantrism—Degradation of
Southern and Northern Buddhism—Buddhism in Tibet—Christianity in
Abyssinia—History of Chinese Buddhism from fourth century A.D. analogous
to that of Christianity in Europe from same date—Deterioration of both
religions similarly indicated—Bôdiharma—Modern Neo-Buddhism—The
T’ien-t’ai School—Reformed Buddhism in China—in Japan—Its most modern
attitude—Difference between Buddhism and Christianity—Alike in
their tendency to deteriorate—Christianity alone manifests a
reforming and progressive power—Resources of Buddhism manifestly
exhausted—Christianity apparently in only an initial stage of
development, _Pages 314-386_