Delivered as the Duff Lectures in Edinburgh in 1888, these chapters place Buddhism against the Brahmanism from which it grew. The Boden Professor of Sanskrit treats the Buddha as a teacher, the scriptures, the order of monks, philosophy and morality, the faith’s decline in India, and its forms in Tibet and elsewhere, closing with a comparison with Christianity.
A learned Victorian survey, frank in its Christian standpoint, useful for its detail and as a record of how Europe first studied Buddhism. Download the free EPUB.