| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Chinese Materials Center.
Reprint series - Chinese Materials Center ; no. 41
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| Contents |
Cover; THE LIFE OF BUDDHA: Derived from Tibetan Works in the Bkah-Hgyur and Bstan-Hgyur; Copyright; INTRODUCTION; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM THE TIME OF ITS RENOVATION TO THE REIGN OF ÇUDDHODANA, FATHER OF THE BUDDHA; CHAPTER II. FROM THE REIGN OF ÇUDDHODANA UNTIL THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE BUDDHA'S MINISTRY; CHAPTER III. LIFE OF THE BUDDHA FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS MINISTRY UNTIL THE REIGN OF ADJATASATRU; CHAPTER IV. FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF ADJATASATRU'S REIGN TO THE DEATH OF THE BUDDHA |
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CHAPTER V. HISTORY OF THE CHURCH DURING THE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS WHICH FOLLOWED THE BUDDHA'S DEATHCHAPTER VI. HISTORY OF THE SCHOOLS OF BUDDHISM; CHAPTER VII. THE EARLY HISTORY OF BOD-YUL (TIBET); CHAPTER VIII. THE EARLY HISTORY OF LI-YUL (KHOTEN); APPENDIX; I. EXTRACTS FROM BHAGAVATÎ XV. ON THE INTERCOURSE BETWEEN MAHÂVÎRA (i.e., NIGANTHA NATAPUTTA) AND GOSÂLA MANKHALIPUTTA; II. THE DOCTRINES OF THE SIX HERETICAL TEACHERS ACCORDING TO TWO CHINESE VERSIONS OF THE SAMANA-PHALA SÛTRA; GENERAL INDEX; INDEX OF TIBETAN WORDS WHICH OCCUR IN THIS VOLUME, WITH THEIR SANSKRIT EQUIVALENTS |
| Summary |
This classic volume focuses on the life of the Buddha and the early history of his order, and includes the first translation of many works. The first part of the book consists of the translation and analysis of contained in the Tibetan Dulva or Vinaya-pitaka, and the second part includes chapters on the early history of Tibet and Khosan and an index of Tibetan words with their Sanskrit equivalents. The author, William Woodville Rockhill, (1854-1914) was a scholar-diplomat, linguist, ethnologist and Tibetan expert who was the first American to speak, read and write Tibetan and the first to e |
| Notes |
Originally published in 2007 by Kegan paul International |
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 11, 2012) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gautama Buddha
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Gautama Buddha |
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Buddhism -- India -- History
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
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Buddhism
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History.
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Hotan (China) -- History
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China -- Hotan
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China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leumann, Ernst, 1859-1931.
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Nanjio, Bunyiu, 1849-1927.
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| ISBN |
9781136218361 |
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113621836X |
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