Charan, Shiva [VerfasserIn]: Life of Gautama Buddha (Lucknow, 1902)

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God in a temple; they would not understand
that God could appropriately be revered in some
other way. Accordingly, they built temples and
set a statue of their deliverer, whom they look-
ed upon as an incarnation of God, in the midst
of each of them. “ He was addressed by the
titles that the Hindus use towards their supreme
God,” and invoked, in the Buddhist Churches,
to appear at the time of worship. There is no
people, in the world, who are so reluctant to
break with old customs, as the Hindus ; and
although no temples were raised, to revere the
idol of Buddha in his lifetime, many were built,
with statues in them, of Buddha and his mother,
after his death.
Buddha, though conscious of his great
personality and power, never enjoined upon
his disciples the necessity of erecting temples
in his memory or honor, or, in any way,
worshipping him like the idols of Rama and
Krishna of old. On the other hand, in spite
of all his godlike greatness, he was very
meek and imposing. The daily life of the