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0383 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 383 (Color Image)

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"Wie des Kunigs Sun in dem aufsciechen am ersten sahe in dem Weg
eynen blinden und eyn aufsmörcligen und eyen alten krummen Man." *

the reign of Chosroes, and from that watershed floated off into the literatures of all
the great creeds. In Christianity alone, characteristically enough, one of them, the
Barlaam book, was surcharged with dogma, and turned to polemical uses, with the
curious result that Buddha became one of the champions of the Church. To divest the
Barlaam-Buddha of this character, and see him in his original form, we must take a
further journey and seek him in his home beyond the Himalayas."

Professor Gaston Paris, in answer to Mr. Jacobs, writes (Poèmes et Lég. du Moyen
Age, p. 213): "Mr. Jacobs thinks that the Book of Balauhar and Yûdâsaf was not
originally Christian; and could have existed such as it is now in Buddhistic India;
but it is hardly likely, as Buddha did not require the help of a teacher to find truth,
and his followers would not have invented the person of Balauhar-Barlaam; on the
other hand, the introduction of the Evangelical Parable of The Sower, which exists in