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² *Cf.* Hans *Haas*, Bibliographie zur Frage nach den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Buddhismus und Christentum (Veröffentlichungen des Forschungsinst. f. vergl. Religionsgeschichte an der Universität Leipzig No. 6) and *Aufhauser*, Buddha und Jesus, Introduction. Besides *Seydel*, *Bergh van Eysinga*, *Edmunds* and *Garbe*, other supporters of the theory of the dependence of the canonical Gospels upon the Buddhist texts or traditions, are H. *Kern* (DLZ 1882, col. 1276) and R.O. *Franke* (DLZ 1901, col. 2757 ff.), who have a prehistoric ("Aryan") connection in mind; also: O. *Pfleiderer*, Die Entstehung des Christentums, 2 Aufl., München 1907, p. 198 f., *Ernst Kuhn* in the Appendix to *Bergh van Eysinga's* work (p. 102 ff.) and R. *Pischel* (DLZ 1904, col. 2938 ff.) who confidently asserts: "The question as to whether Indian influences are at all to be found in the narrative literature of the Gospels can no longer be denied at the present day"; also K. E. *Neumann*, Reden Gotamo Buddho's III, 112, 256 note, 258 note, 259 note, 260 note, 331 note and elsewhere (cf. the criticism of *Günter*, Buddha, 259 ff.); K. *Seidenstücker* in his German translation of Udāna II, 8; VII, 9; VIII 5; 9; 10 and introduction p. xxii; in a few cases also H. *Haas*, "Das Scherflein der Witwe" und seine Entsprechung in Tripitaka, Leipzig 1922 (Veröffentlichungen etc. No. 5) and Buddha in der abendländischen Legende? Leipzig 1923 (Veröffentlichungen etc. No. 9). A. *Weber* (Griechen in Indien, SBA 1890, p. 928 f.) and H. *Oldenberg* (Theolog. Litztg. 1905, col. 65 ff., Aus dem alten Indien, p. 47 f.) regard it as an open question. An entirely or almost entirely negative attitude is taken up by T. W. *Rhys Davids*, SBE XI, 165 f.; J. Estlin *Carpenter*, The first three Gospels, their Origin and Relations, 2nd Ed., London 1890, pp. 136 ff., 161 ff., 174 ff., 208 ff., 237 f.; "Buddhist and Christian Parallels" in "Studies in the History of Religions" presented to Crawford Howell Toy, New York, 1912 (not accessible to me) and Buddhism and Christianity (London 1923), p. 179 f.; E. *Hardy*, Der Buddhismus, new ed. by Rich. *Schmidt*, Münster i. W. 1919, p.