Excerpt from Prince Siddartha: The Japanese Buddha IN many respects this is a very unusual book. While it has the interest of a story, it will be peculiarly fasci nating to many minds because from the Oriental point of view it relates the life of a great religious leader, who bears sway over uncounted millions of our fellow men. 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.