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1873. This is a short monograph about Feng Shui, the principle of
humanity being in balance with its surroundings. Eitel, a
missionary, who took a post in China, first brought Feng Shui to
the attention of the western world over a century ago. Because of
his Christian doctrine, Eitel is somewhat dismissive of Chinese
culture, but he grudgingly admits that there may be some grain of
truth in Feng Shui. Contents: The Laws of Nature; The Numerical
Proportions of Nature; The Breath of Nature; The Forms and Outlines
of Nature; and The History and Literature of Feng-shui. See other
titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
1873. From the Preface: Two of the following essays on Buddhism
formed part of a series of popular lectures, delivered in Union
Church...To complete the plan laid down in the first essay, it was
necessary to add a third, and the whole is herewith offered to the
reader as a popular sketch of Buddhism, which is here viewed under
its different aspects, as an event in history, as a system of
doctrine, and as a popular religion.
1873. This is a short monograph about Feng Shui, the principle of
humanity being in balance with its surroundings. Eitel, a
missionary, who took a post in China, first brought Feng Shui to
the attention of the western world over a century ago. Because of
his Christian doctrine, Eitel is somewhat dismissive of Chinese
culture, but he grudgingly admits that there may be some grain of
truth in Feng Shui. Contents: The Laws of Nature; The Numerical
Proportions of Nature; The Breath of Nature; The Forms and Outlines
of Nature; and The History and Literature of Feng-shui. See other
titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
1888. With Vocabularies of Buddhist Terms in Pali, Singhalese,
Siamese, Burmese, Tibetan, Mongolian and Japanese. From the
Preface: The student of Chinese religious literature finds himself
at almost every step hampered by the continual recurrence of
Sanskrit and other foreign terms embedded in the text, generally
without a word of explanation. These form a series of vexatious
riddles for a clue to which one has to go beyond the range of a
Chinese library. This is especially the case with Buddhist works,
many of which are simply translations from Sanskrit or Pali or
Tibetan originals. Hence arises the need of a Dictionary like the
present which aims at smoothing the pathway to an understanding of
Buddhism and of native religions influenced by it.
1873. From the Preface: Two of the following essays on Buddhism
formed part of a series of popular lectures, delivered in Union
Church...To complete the plan laid down in the first essay, it was
necessary to add a third, and the whole is herewith offered to the
reader as a popular sketch of Buddhism, which is here viewed under
its different aspects, as an event in history, as a system of
doctrine, and as a popular religion.
This is a small and concise book of the treaties of Buddhism from 3
distinct aspects: it starts by viewing Buddhism as an event in
history, then as a system of doctrine and finally it is treated as
a popular religion. The book formed a part of a series of lectures
delivered in the winter of 1870-71. The book is an 1873
publication.
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