HINDUISM & BUDDHISM Vol. 3/3 with D.J - CHARLES ELIOT Inde Chine Japon 1968

Ensemble complet en trois volumes et intégralement en anglais.

AUTEUR:By SIR CHARLES ELIOT

TITRE:HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM. An Historical Sketch. In three Volumes.

LIEU: EDITEUR, DATE:London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1968 (first published 1921)

COLLATION:3 vol. de civ-345 pp. + 322 pp. + 513 pp. COMPLET 3/3

FORMAT:In-8 (14 x 21.5 cm)

RELIURE:Reliures éditeur à la bradel, percaline bleue, sous une jaquette imprimée

ILLUSTRATIONS:Sans

ETAT: Un bon ensemble. Belles reliures propres et solides, de bel aspect. Bonnes jaquettes. Intérieur frais et propre, sans rousseur. En bon état.

BIOGRAPHIE & THEME:"The book is divided into three parts. Part one deals with a survey of Buddhism in India and China [...] the second part with Buddhism in Japan beginning with its introduction to the country from Korea in 552 A.D.. The book concludes with a chapter on Nichiren." (quatrième de couverture)

POIDS:1.5 kg

CHARLES ELIOT
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In any case the records declare that the Indian Emperor showed the greatest solicitude for the spiritual welfare of Ceylon and, though they are obviously embellished, there is no reason to doubt their substantial accuracy1. The Sinhalese tradition agrees on the whole with the data supplied by Indian inscrip tions and Chinese pilgrims. The names of missionaries mentioned in the Dipa and Mahavamsas recur on urns found at Sanchi and on its gateways are pictures in relief which appear to represent the transfer of a branch of the Bo-tree in solemn pro cession to Some destination which, though unnamed, may be conjectured to be Ceylonz. The absence of Mahinda's name in Asoka's inscriptions is certainly suspicious, but the Sinhalese chronicles give the names of other missionaries correctly and a mere argumentum ex silentio cannot disprove their testimony on this important point.