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elsewhere, and in different times and places this center
will be predominantly teaching one of the great yanas.
Now the Dharma center has long been established in the
West and so has laid down very good foundations.
Another point is this. The English were the rulers of
India for a long time and often seemed to regard Tibet
as though it were their possession also. But they also
treated the Tibetans well on the whole and allowed them
to come and go freely. The Dalai Lamas have usually
liked the English better than the Chinese, who were
their nominal rulers, and His Holiness, the thirteenth
incarnation of the Dalai Lama, was very friendly
towards England. Tibet became known as a holy land
and was highly regarded by students of Oriental religion.
Many scholars were able to visit the country and study
the Dharma there. In this way, quite a wide knowledge
was gained of Buddhadharma.
3. It is also a Dharma-condition that all religions have
the same basis as Buddhism: they all possess its first
yana. This is called "heaven-and-man" Dharma, and we
can see at once that it exists in every religion. It is the
way to the Deva-worlds preached in Buddhism, Jainism,
and Hinduism; it is the Paradise of Islam and the
Heaven of Christianity. Therefore, this kind of
foundation for Buddhism is established everywhere, and
Buddhists of the West should not think of rejecting
Christ's teaching because of this. (See Chapter II and
Appendix III, II, A).
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