The Life or Legend of Gaudama - Paperback

Excerpt from The Life or Legend of Gaudama: The Budha of the Burmese, With Annotations; Notice on the Phongies, or Budhist Religious, and the Ways to Niban

The surest way perhaps of coming at least to an exact and accurate knowledge respecting the history and doctrines of Bud hism, would be to give a translation of the Legends of Budha, such as they are to be met with, in all countries where Budhisim has established its sway, and accompany these translations with an exposition of the various doctrinal points, such as they are held, understood and believed by those various nations. This has already been done by eminent oriental scholars, on Thibetan, Sanscrit, Cingalese and Chinese originals. A similar work exe outed by competent persons among the Shans, Siamese, Gambodi ans and Cochin Chinese would considerably help the Savans in Europe, who have assumed the difficult task of exposing the Bud hist system in its complex and multifarious forms, to give a full, general, and comprehensive view of that great religious creed with all its variations.

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