An eminent scholar's critical examination and comparison of the teachings of some of the world's major religions, primarily Christianity and Buddhism, to a lesser extent Islam and Judaism. The author's main thesis is that no religion can claim to be the only true religion without involving human society either in bitter conflict or in merciless persecution. In the final section of the book, he treats the Buddhist and Brahmanical ways of salvation as a quest which parallels and might well usefully...
