Brahmans 133 " Mohammedans 110 " Buddhists 245 "

Perkins, Johnson’s American Atlas. 
Christians                                            369 millions. 
Mohammedans                                           160    "
Jews                                                    6    "
Buddhists                                             320    "

New American Cyclopaedia. 
Buddhists 290 millions.

And Professor Newmann estimates the number of Buddhists at 369 millions.

[99] Le Bouddha et sa Religion.  Par J. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire.—­Eastern Monachism.  By Spence Hardy.—­Burnouf, Introduction, etc.—­Koeppen, Die Religion des Buddha.

[100] The works from which this chapter has been mostly drawn are these:—­Introduction a l’Histoire du Buddhisme indien.  Par E. Burnouf.  (Paris, 1844) Le Bouddha et sa Religion.  Par J. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire.  (Paris, 1860.) Eastern Monachism.  By R. Spence Hardy. (London, 1850.) A Manual of Buddhism in its Modern Development.  By R. Spence Hardy. (London, 1853.) Die Religion des Buddha.  Von Karl F. Koeppen. (Berlin, 1857.) Indische Alterthumskunde.  Von Christian Lassen. (Bonn, 1852.) Der Buddhismus, Seine Dogmen, Geschichte, und Literatur.  Von W. Wassiljew.  (St. Petersburg, 1860.) Ueber Buddha’s Todesjahr.  Von N. L. Westergaard.  (Breslau, 1862.) Gott in der Geschichte.  Von C. C. J. Bunsen. (Leipzig, 1858.) The Bhilsa Topes, or Buddhist Monuments of Central India.  By A. Cunningham. (London, 1854.) Buddhism in Thibet.  By Emil Schlagintweit.  (Leipzig and London, 1863.) Travels in Eastern countries by Hue and Gabet, and others.  Eeferences to Buddhism in the writings of Max Mueller, Maurice, Baur, Hardwick, Fergusson, Pritchard, Wilson, Colebrooke, etc.

[101] At the end of the fourth century of our era a Chinese Buddhist made a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Buddha, and found the city in ruins.  Another Chinese pilgrim visited it A.D. 632, and was able to trace the remains of the ruined palace, and saw a room which had been occupied by Buddha.  These travels have been translated from the Chinese by M. Stanislas Julien.

[102] Buddha is not a proper name, but an official title.  Just as we ought not to say Jesus Christ, but always Jesus the Christ, so we should say Siddartha the Buddha, or Sakya-muni the Buddha, or Gautama the Buddha.  The first of these names, Siddartha (contracted from Sarvartha-siddha) was the baptismal name given by his father, and means “The fulfilment of every wish.”  Sakya-muni means “The hermit of the race of Sakya,”—­Sakya being the ancestral name of his father’s race.  The name Gautama is stated by Koeppen to be “der priesterliche Beiname des Geschlechts der Sakya,”—­whatever that may mean.