The Gospel of Buddha
La Salle, Illinois · 1894
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Paul Carus
Paul Carus
1852 CE–1919 CE · Modern · La Salle, Illinois
1852 – 1919
Paul Carus (1852–1919) was a German-American editor and author who helped introduce Buddhism to English-speaking readers around the turn of the twentieth century. As managing editor of Open Court Publishing in La Salle, Illinois, he wrote The Gospel of Buddha (1894), a popular anthology of Buddhist passages, and hosted and published the young D. T. Suzuki, whose English-language work he helped launch. Carus was an interpreter and popularizer interested in a 'religion of science' rather than a practitioner within a Buddhist lineage. He died in 1919.
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DOCUMENTED: edited Open Court and The Monist; wrote The Gospel of Buddha (1894) and hosted the young D. T. Suzuki, helping launch Suzuki's English-language career.
About La Salle, Illinois
La Salle, Illinois, USA, was the home of the Open Court Publishing Company, where the German-American philosopher Paul Carus worked and wrote. Carus authored 'The Gospel of Buddha' (1894) and helped bring Buddhist texts and the teacher D. T. Suzuki to a Western readership.
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