Esoteric Buddhism

for further teaching of this kind on the part of
the world at large, but will never have to be
remodeled or apologized for.

Further than this, the reception of the book
in India has shown that the doctrines thus
for the first time set forth in a coherent and
straightforward way are recognized, when thus
stated, by various schools of Oriental philoso-
phy as consonant with their fundamental views.
A Brahman Hindoo, writing in the Indian
magazine, “The Theosophist,” for June, 1884,
criticises the present volume as departing un-
necessarily from accepted Sanskrit nomencla-
turæ; but his objection merely is that I have
given unfamiliar names in some cases to ideas
which are already expressed in Hindoo sacred
writings, and that I have done too much honor
to the religious system commonly known as
Buddhism, by representing that as more closely
allied with the esoteric doctrine than any other.
“The popular wisdom of the majority of the
Hindoos to this day,” says my Brahman critic,
“is more or less tinged with the esoteric doc-
trines taught in Mr. Sinnett’s book, misnamed
‘Esoteric Buddhism,’ while there is not a sin-
gle hamlet or village in the whole of India in
which people are not more or less acquainted
with the sublime tenets of the Vedanta philoso-
phy. . . . The effects of Karma in the next