A. As the result of the good understanding now existing, a number of Japanese bhikkhus and samaneras have been sent to Ceylon and India to study Pālī and Samskrt.
322. Q. Are there signs that the Buddha Dharma is growing in favour in non-Buddhistic countries?[[1]]
A. There are. Translations of our more valuable books are appearing, many articles in reviews, magazines and newspapers are being published, and excellent original treatises by distinguished writers are coming from the press. Moreover, Buddhist and non-Buddhist lecturers are publicly discoursing on Buddhism to large audiences in western countries. The Shin Shu sect of Japanese Buddhists have actually opened missions at Honolulu, San Francisco, Sacramento and other American places.
323. Q. What two leading ideas of ours are chiefly taking hold upon the western mind?
A. Those of Karma and Reincarnation. The rapidity of their acceptance is very surprising.
324. Q. What is believed to be the explanation of this?
A. Their appeals to the natural instinct of justice, and their evident reasonableness.
[[1]] See [Appendix].