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THE GOD OF BUDDHA

James K Fozdar

Asia publishing house , Inc. New York

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

This book is about the greatest enigma that has plagued Buddhism for over two thousand years and made it a “thing” apart from the other great religious systems of the world, much to Buddhism’s detriment.

Mr. Fozdar’s thesis dwells on a subject long since accepted as self-contradictory and hence taboo. Where God was they said. Buddha could not be and vice versa. Now we find upon deeper penetration of the Buddha’s message that it was not always so and that the true and meaning of His message can only be understood if the reality of His claim is predicated, as in the case of all other major religions, on the existence of God. Without a clear affirmation of the “Source of Divinity”, Buddhism seemed as a tree without roots in the ground of “being”, offering a meaningless extinction as its final fruit. Mr. Fozdar’s quest therfore has been to unearth and elaborate the Buddha’s own sayings concerning the nature of that Primal Cause acknowledged by Him so as to remove the long accepted fallacy that, unlike the other great reiligions of the world, Buddhism rests on no divine revelation and leads to no eternal ends beyond that of total annihilation of the individual consciousness.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

I.          GAUTAMA THE BUDDHA

            Birth and Background

            Enlightenment

            Divine Station

II.        DOCTRINE

            Renewal of Religion

            Dharma

            Faith

            Renunciation

            Detachment

            Selfless Action

            Doing One’s Duty

            Moderation Concerning Food

            The Meaning of Brahmin

            Soul- Mind and Self

            Soul-Mind

            True Self

            Non-Ego – Illusory Self

            Heaven and Hell

            The world of Devas (Gods) and Spirit Beings

III.       NIRVANA

IV.       THE GOD OF BUDDHA

            Point and Counterpoint

-          ‘Gods’, in our image, and the Unmanifest Brahma

-          Creation and Creator

-          Law and Law-Maker

Obviating the Absurdities

The Underlying Reality – God

EPILOGUE

GLOSSARY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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