Life Of Buddha / Edition 1

by William Woodville Rockhill

Overview

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 explore the Tibetan highlands. While serving as the American Minister to China, he became an authority on Buddhism and a friend of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. His collection of Tibetan manuscripts, including those consulted for this volume, became the core of the Library of Congress's Tibetan holdings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780710311955
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/05/2007
Series:	Library of Religion and Mysticism Series
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. HISTORY OF THE WOULD FROM THE TIME OF ITS RENOVATIION TO THE REIGN OF CUDDHODANA -A, FATHER OF THE BUDDHA CHAPTER II FROM THE REIGN OF CUDDHODANA UNTIL THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE BUDDHA'S MINISTRY CHAPTER III LIFE OF THE BUDDHA FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF H[S M[I'I[1]8TRY UNTIL THE REIGN OF ADJATASATRU CHAPTER IV. FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF ADJATASATRU 'S REIGN TO THE DEATH OF THE BUDDHA CHAPTER V HISTORY OF THE CHURCH DURING THE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS WHICH FOLLOWED THE BUDDHA'S DEATH CHAPTER VI HISTORY OF THF SCHOOLS OF BUDDHIAS CHAPTER VII. THE EARLY HISTORY OF BOD-YUL (TIBET) CHAPTER VIII. THE EARLY HISTORY OF LI-YUL (KHOTEN)