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... COLOMBO PRESIDENT OF THE CEYLON BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY NDO LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . AND NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16TH STREET 1892 All rights reserved ! 1892 , Jam ? Finity Schor 145-8641 Ceplisten PREFACE.
... COLOMBO PRESIDENT OF THE CEYLON BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY NDO LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . AND NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16TH STREET 1892 All rights reserved ! 1892 , Jam ? Finity Schor 145-8641 Ceplisten PREFACE.
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... East ; to Professor Rhys Davids , and the editors of the Pali Text Society ; to Dr. Hermann Oldenberg , the editor of the Vinaya Pitaka ; and Dr. Fausböll , the editor of the Játaka . Most of these scholars are also authors of ...
... East ; to Professor Rhys Davids , and the editors of the Pali Text Society ; to Dr. Hermann Oldenberg , the editor of the Vinaya Pitaka ; and Dr. Fausböll , the editor of the Játaka . Most of these scholars are also authors of ...
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... East and other English versions . I have done this , not so much to save myself trouble , as to give my readers security . But whenever the source of a translation is not acknowledged , I am myself responsible for it . For all the more ...
... East and other English versions . I have done this , not so much to save myself trouble , as to give my readers security . But whenever the source of a translation is not acknowledged , I am myself responsible for it . For all the more ...
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... Eastern Monachism and Manual of Buddhism , and have been astonished at the accuracy with which he obtained , through Sinhalese channels , the contents of the Pali texts and commentaries . The fact that he was able to do so shows how ...
... Eastern Monachism and Manual of Buddhism , and have been astonished at the accuracy with which he obtained , through Sinhalese channels , the contents of the Pali texts and commentaries . The fact that he was able to do so shows how ...
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... East , and especially in China , the temples of Buddhism and its professors are to be found . These countries were set down as Buddhist ; and it was computed that the aggregate of their population amounted to a total exceeding that of ...
... East , and especially in China , the temples of Buddhism and its professors are to be found . These countries were set down as Buddhist ; and it was computed that the aggregate of their population amounted to a total exceeding that of ...
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Page 504 - ARISTOTLE.— THE WORKS OF. The Politics: G. Bekker's Greek Text of Books I. III. IV. (VII.), with an English Translation by WE BOLLAND, MA ; and short Introductory Essays by A. LANG, MA Crown 8vo.