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The materials for this book are drawn ultimately from the Pali Tipitaka. These Pali writings furnish the most authoritative account of The Buddha and his Teaching that we have; and it is therefore to be regretted that, inasmuch as so little has been known in the West until recently of either Pali or Pali literature, the information of the public concerning Buddhism has been so largely drawn from books based on other, non-Pali, sources, on works written in Chinese and Tibetan languages, and in the Buddhist-Sanskrit of Nepal. But all Pali texts are now available and several volumes of translations into English have appeared, so that all excuse for not deriving our knowledge of Buddhism from the most authentic sources is fast disappearing.