The teachings of Gautama the BuddhaSanskrit बुद्ध past tense from the root budh, mean… More. BuddhismThe teachings of Gautama the Buddha. Buddhism today is divid… More today is divided into two branches, the Northern and the Southern. The Southern still retains the teachings of the ‘‘Buddha’s brain,’’ the ‘‘eye doctrine,’’ that is to say his outer philosophy for the general world, sometimes inadequately called the doctrine of forms and ceremonies. The Northern still retains his ‘‘heart doctrine’’- that which is hid, the inner life, the heart-blood, of the religion: the doctrine of the inner heart of the teaching. The religious philosophy of the Buddha-´S¯akyamuni is incomparably nearer to the ancient wisdom, the esoteric philosophy of the archaic ages, than is Christianity. Its main fault today is that teachers later than the BuddhaSanskrit बुद्ध past tense from the root budh, mean… More himself carried its doctrines too far along merely formal or exoteric lines; yet, with all that, to this day it remains the purest and holiest of the exoteric religions on earth, and its teachings even exoterically are true — once they are properly understood. They need but the esoteric key in interpretation of them. As a“The Sanskrit prefix ‘A’ means ‘not’, the negative… More matter of fact, the same may be said of all the great ancient world religions. Christianity, Brahmanism, Taoism, and others all have the same esoteric wisdom behind the outward veil of the exoteric formal faith