The Buddhists have founded no Inquisition; they have combined the zeal which converted kingdoms with a toleration almost inexplicable to our Western experience.
Only one religious war has darkened their peaceful history during twenty-three centuries,--that which took place in Thibet, but of which we know little.

A Siamese told Crawford that he believed all the religions of the world to be branches of the true religion.

A Buddhist in Ceylon sent his son to a Christian school, and told the astonished missionary, "I respect Christianity as much as Buddhism, for I regard it as a help to Buddhism." MM.

Hue and Gabet converted no Buddhist in Tartary and Thibet, but they partially converted one, bringing him so far as to say that he considered himself at the same time a good Christian and a good Buddhist.
Buddhism is also a religion of humanity.

Because it lays such stress on reason, it respects all men, since all possess this same gift.