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The popular life of Buddha, containing an answer to the "Hibbert lectures" of 1881. By Arthur Lillie ... With five illustrations.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1883 Lillie
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lillie, Arthur, 1831-1911.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gautama Buddha.
- Davids, T. W. Rhys (Thomas William Rhys), 1843-1922. Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by some points in the history of Buddhism.
- Davids, T. W. Rhys.
- Buddhism.
- Genre:
- Gold-tooled bindings (Binding) -- 1883.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1883.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 340 p. front., illus., 4 pl. 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, K. Paul, Trench & co., 1883.
- Contents:
- Birth of Buddha
- The infant Buddha
- Marriage of Buddha
- The four presaging tokens
- The great renunciation
- The higher Brahminism
- The lower Brahminism
- Buddha's reform
- Buddha begins to preach
- King Aśoka
- The "carriage that drives to the great nowhere"
- Buddhaghosa and the atheism of Ceylon
- The first convocation
- The third convocation
- Buddhaghosa's condensation of the Lalita Vistara
- The Brahmajâla Sûtra
- The Mahâparinirvâṇa Sûtra
- Ritual
- The Buddhist triad
- Cosmology
- Shamanism
- The testimony of Aśoka
- The historical Buddha
- The death of Buddha.
- Notes:
- Chiefly based on the Lalitavistara. cf. p. 3.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in red cloth with title in gold on front cover and spine. Border and floral lotus design stamped in black on front cover.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Written on title page: "Recd Dec. 20, 1883."
- OCLC:
- 2664973
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