Hermann Oldenberg
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The Buddha is the central figure in a religion that advocates liberation from the transient material world. The Buddha was not only the Teacher of the Way and the producer of the unproduced path, he was the actuality of the teachings that he preached, the one who had lived them and had reached the goal. Buddha, His Life, His Doctrine, His Order offers a unique insight into the richness and abundance of human idealism and aspiration. It also provides a ...
The Grhya-sutra of Paraskara, which belongs to the White Yajurveda and forms an appendix to Katyayana's Srautasutra has been edited, with a German translation, by the 'scholar who was the first to make a Grhya text accessible to orientalists and to begin to grapple with the first and most serious difficulties that beset its interpretation, and who has continued since to do more than anyone else towards elucidating that important branch of Vedic literature. It ...
Vedic literature presents a panorama of the life of the ancient people of India in all its facets. The sacred literature was subjected to analytical study for the first time in the recent centuries by European scholars, mainly Germans, the foremost among them being Hermann Oldernberg. His magnum opus – Die Religion des Veda – first appeared in print in 1894 and in a revised edition in 1916. He made use of linguistic methods, ethnology and folklore in his ...
This is a translation of a German work, Buddha, sein Leben, seine Lehre, sein Gemeinde by Prof. Hermann Oldenberg. The original had attracted the attention of European scholars and the name of Oldenberg is a sufficient guarantee of the value of its contents. The distinguised author has in this work demolished the sceptical theory of a solar Buddha put forward by M. Senart. He has sifted the legendary elements of Buddhist tradition and has given the reliable ...
