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Present work is a treatise on Buddhism published in honor of Dr. Alexander Duff. It covers a series of 18 lectures that were delivered in Edinburgh in his honor by the author. It covers every facet of Buddhism and its connection with Brahmanism and Hinduism and even with Jainism and its contrast with Christianity. The author has been able to combine scientific accuracy with empirical analysis, basing his conclusions on self study of Buddhist texts to verify all ...
The present volume contains a kaleidoscopic survey of different facets of prominent religious systems of ancient and modern India based on the personal observation and investigations of the learned scholar into the religious practices of the language and literature of India involving nearly half a century. The book deals primarily with Vedism, Brahmanism and Hinduism which according to the learned author are the three most important and difficult phases of Indian ...
The present work is a reprint of new edition of 1899 published by Clarendon Press, Oxford. It is greatly enlarged and improved work and has more than 180,000 words about 60,000 more than the first edition. Besides being original it possesses four principal characteristics viz., scholarly accuracy; practical utility; lucidity of arrangement designed to set forth as clearly as possible the etymological structure of the languages of Europe; and, completeness and ...
The great development of the study of sanskrit, during the later half of the 19th century has necessitated a Reverse Dictionary for all those scholars who devoted themselves to the social, religious and intellectual study of India and Indians. Realising this the author set to work upon planning this dictionary (1843-51) basing primarily on Amarkosa, Riddle`s English Latin Dictionary, Prof. Wilson`s sanskrit English Dictionary, the Marathi Dictionary of Captain ...
The book contains almost everything about Buddhism, e.g. Origin of Buddhism, Jainism, Buddha's law, his order of monks, Buddha's birth, the Bodhi-tree, his first sermon, Buddhist scriptures, Tripitaka, Sangha, philosophical doctrines of Buddhism, Nirvana, theistic and polytheistic Buddhism. This book also speaks about Bodhisattvas, Dhyani Buddha, Buddhist mahatmas, samadhi, modern esoteric Buddhism and Asiatic occultism, hierarchical Buddhism, the Adi-Buddha, ...