Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism

Informationen zum Autor Katia Buffetrille is research scholar at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. She is the author! editor! or coeditor of several books! including Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions and Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He is the author! editor! or translator of many books! including! most recently. From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha and Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler! both also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext First published in 1844! and it was read by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Germany and Emerson and Thoreau in America. Reintroducing Burnouf to a new generation of Buddhologists! Buffetrille and Lopez have revived a seminal text in the history of Orientalism. It provides a view of how the Buddhism religion was understood in the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung First published in 1844! and it was read by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Germany and Emerson and Thoreau in America. Reintroducing Burnouf to a new generation of Buddhologists! Buffetrille and Lopez have revived a seminal text in the history of Orientalism. It provides a view of how the Buddhism religion was understood in the nineteenth century.

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• Authors: Eugene Burnouf, Eugene Burnouf
• Assisted by: Katia Buffetrille (Translation), Buffetrille Katia (Translation), Donald S. Lopez (Translation), Donald S. Lopez Jr (Translation), Donald S. Lopez Jr. (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2015
• EAN: 9780226269689
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26968-9
• No. of pages: 616
• Series: Buddhism and Modernity; Buddhism and Modernity; Buddhism and Modernity (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Buddhism / General, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, Buddhism, India, History of Religion