title: A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
author:  Mircea Eliade 
description: The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman Religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity-all are encompassed in this volume.
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  Gautama Buddha beatified! 
  
  BUDDHAS AND INITIATES SERIES 
  GAUTAMA BUDDHA BEATIFIED! 
  Gautama Buddha beatified! v. 13.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 25 March 2018 
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  So true is it, that even the early Roman Catholic saint-makers, 
  with a flippant unconcern for detection by posterity characteris-
  tic of the early periods of Christianity, claimed Him as one of 
  their converts, and, under the pseudonym of St. Josaphat, regis-
  tered him in their Golden Legend and Martyrology as an ortho-
  dox, beatified Catholic saint. 
  — HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
  1 
  ARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT, one of the most popular and widely disseminated 
  of medieval religious romances, which owes its importance and interest to 
  the fact that it is a Christianized version of the story of Gautama Siddhār-
  tha, the Buddha, with which it agrees not only in broad outline but in essential de-
  tails. 
  The Christian story firs