During the last 50 years I've bought and read many book concerning religion and especially philosophy, among them 10 concerning Buddha. And I must admit that this one is the best which I until now have read about Asian philosophy and religions.
The book is excellent for being used during studying in high school or university, as I recall it from during the studying years in Denmark. And as easily read it's also good for persons interested in by self studying to learn about nearly all of the religions and philosophy which in Asia during the historical time there was made. And beside I in the book like the humors connected to some of the reproductions.
As a remark, when I was child we in Denmark beside Christianity only had around 6,000 citizens being Jewish, that being 0.12 % of the population, and in school we only learned about Christianity. But in the middle of the sixties, soon fifty years ago, we started getting workers coming from Turkey, and thereby got Muslims. So now we in the population in Denmark have around 7 %, that is, 350,000 persons, being Muslims, and now, beside that, lots of other persons belonging to nearly all kind of other known religions. So now we have to learn of more than only Christianity to better understand each other.
I must say that this book contains many interesting details; so many that I by my using of speed maker nearly have changed the sides to being most yellow. For example on side 180 is told that all of the descendants from Confucius, during the now past around 2,500 years, have been documented right down, and that those now living are staying on Taiwan to where the went when Mao wan the civil war. And by this, and what further we read, we must admit that that China thousands of years ago was thousands of years a head of Europe, for example when we on side 193 under Confucius's teachings, there read about his thinking on Utopia. Where we in Europe, after that the Roman Empire had taken over from the Greek, then in the following 1,500 years until 500 years from now, for example nearly had no philosophers at all.
Back in 1967, when I for the first time read Nietzches: "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", then I by research concerning Zarathustra, only found short information about a god or holy person which legend told should had been living around 6,000 years ago. But then in this book, on side 293, there starts a chapter about Zoroastrianism and here it shows up to be a still existing religion, even though now not having more than 30,000 members who live in Tehran. Original coming from India and therefore included in this book concerning Asian religions. And then we here read about an actual person, named Zarathustra, who probably was born about 630 B.C.E. Highly interesting for me to recognize
And by reading the book we also recognize how enormous much writing concerning religion and philosophy that there especially in India and China were made during thousands of years. And especially I liked the refreshing I got about Taos thinking. And thereby I now have been interesting in reading more from Tao, else I've always had most knowing to Confucius and Buddha.
Only, for me it's a shame that that we in the book, concerning the writings about Bhagavagita are missing the writings about how the gods during their weeks of fighting not get the telling about the fighting up in the sky. Which many persons has been writing about and thereby speculating if there maybe actual was a war up in the sky, and maybe visit persons from other planets!
But once again; an extremely good historical book concerning religions and philosophy in Asia.
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