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The aim of the present work is to trace the growth of the Buddhist community, to indicate the relation to the world of Hindu and non-Hindu society in which it arose, and to follow the rise and development of the doctrines from their legendary origin into the system which has spread over a great part of Asia. The legendary and earliest historical aspect was dealt with by the author in The Life of Buddha as Legend and History. The later phase is covered in the ...
Since the appearance of the epoch-making works of Rhys Davis, Kern, and Oldenberg, the sources for the history of Buddha and Buddhism, have been greatly increased. The accessions to our knowledge of the Pali texts are indeed chiefly due to Rhys Davids, but these new data have never been in corporated with previous results. The present work attempts to set forth informations what is known from the records, that has never yet been presented in a Western forum. It ...