Buddhism is the earliest ethical system where man is called upon to have himself governed by himself”. If he is to be truly civilized he must learn to be ruled by his own principles. Taylor (1830/1887) had rightly said in his celebrated book ‘Buddhism and Modern Thoughts’: “Man had been ruled by external authority long enough. While throwing light over the nature of this era, E.G. It was, indeed, intellectually, and morally a backward era. In India, the period before the emergence of the Buddha was one of the darkest ages in the life of human history.
Among those great men, the visit of the Lord Buddha to this planet was, by any scale, glorious and virtuous indeed. In this century alone the Greek Philosopher and Mathematician Pythagoras Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism Vardhman Mahavir, the exponent of Jainism and the Chinese political thinker and philosopher Confucius appeared on this earth almost at the same time, who had made profound, indelible contribution over man’s socio-political, ethical, and religious life past 2500 years.
In the annals of human civilization, the 6 th Century BC was the most attractive and remarkable one.
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