Arthur Lillie was a soldier in the British Army in India. While there, he became a Buddhist. His books on religion were poorly received by scholars. Lillie appears to have written the original rule book for a Scottish croquet

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 tournament, which, if so, continues to be his best-received work.

Arthur Lillie also took an enthusiastic interest in Gospel of the Hebrews

Gospel of the Hebrews

The Gospel of the Hebrews , commonly shortened from the Gospel according to the Hebrews or simply called the Hebrew Gospel, is a hypothesised lost gospel preserved in fragments within the writings of the Church Fathers....

. In Buddhism in Christendom Or Jesus the Essene he wrote

At any rate the account of the last supper in the Gospel of the Hebrews was manifestly quite different from the accounts given in our present gospels. There we see nothing about James drinking out of Christ's cup, a fact which proves that the contents of the cup must have been water, for St. James was bound by the vow of the Nazarite to drink water for life."

Books

• Buddha and early Buddhism (1881)
• The Popular Life of Buddha: Containing an Answer to the "Hibbert Lectures" of 1881 (1883)
• Buddhism in Christendom, Or, Jesus, the Essene (1887)
• The Cobra Diamond (1890)
• The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity (1893)
• Madame Blavatsky and Her "theosophy": A Study (1895)
• Croquet: Its History, Rules, and Secrets. (1897)
• Croquet Up to Date: Containing the Ideas and Teachings of the Leading Players and Champions (1900)
• Râma and Homer: An Argument that in the Indian Epics Homer Found the Theme of His Two Great Poems (1912)
• Gospel of the Hebrews 30 page article extracted from Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity 1893 by Kessinger Publishing
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  and listed as 2005.