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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 August 2010
      25 February 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511706912
      9781108007979
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511706912
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.78kg, 620 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Buddhism and Eastern Religions, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest, Non-Western Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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    Subjects:
    Buddhism and Eastern Religions, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest, Non-Western Philosophy
    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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