Abstract
The paper attempts to briefly outline the image of two Indian religious systems, Hinduism and Buddhism, as they were intentionally negatively represented by the Czech Catholic and Evangelical press at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It also shows how it is possible to extract from these apparently different texts (of Catholic or Evangelical provenance) a clear uniform image of the representation of Indian religious-philosophical systems.
As a result of the development of the attitudes of the Catholic Church towards the liberal and anti-clerical sentiments of the end of the 19th century, it shows the formation of the image of Indian religions in such a way that seemingly foreign and distant philosophical-religious systems reflect the basic problems of the European secularizing world, as the church treated and perceived them in that period.