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Buddhism - In its Connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and in its Contrast with Christianity (Paperback)
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Buddhism - In its Connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and in its Contrast with Christianity (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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This book derives from a series of lectures given in 1888 by Monier
Monier-Williams, who was Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford for over
30 years and whose work broke new ground in the Western
understanding of Buddhism and other South Asian religions. This
substantial historical survey of Buddhism begins with an account of
the Buddha and his earliest teaching, as well as a brief
description of the origin and composition of the scriptures
containing the Buddha's law (Dharma). Monier-Williams explains the
early constitution of the Buddha's order of monks (Sangha), and
outlines the philosophical doctrines of Buddhism together with its
code of morality and theory of perfection, culminating in Nirvana.
He also describes formal and popular rituals and practices, and
sacred places and objects. The book is an example of Victorian
Orientalist scholarship which remains of interest to historians of
religious studies, Orientalism, and the British Empire.
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