Excerpt from Gotama Buddha: A Biography, Based on the Canonical Books of the Theravādin It was a Japanese disciple of Gotama who called him a king of the Spiritual in the mask of beggary, and it is to be hoped that this volume will find readers also in Japan, for although there are several lives Of Buddha written in Jap anese, no one Of them so happily as this combines a popular presentation with the results of recent historical criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.