Essays on the languages, literature, and religion of Nepál and Tibet
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Essays on the languages, literature, and religion of Nepál and Tibet
（Cambridge library collection, . Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society）
Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Trübner , 1874
Includes index
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Description
An English civil servant who worked in British India and Nepal, Brian Houghton Hodgson (c.1801-94) was also a specialist in Tibetan Buddhism. First published in 1874, this is a collection of his essays on nineteenth-century Nepal and Tibet, earlier versions of which had appeared in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society and two books of Hodgson's own, later updated for the Phoenix, a monthly magazine for China, Japan and eastern Asia. Diverse in coverage, the essays represent over thirty years' research. Those in Part 1 focus on Buddhism, covering religious practices, writing, literature, attitudes to Buddhism and the differences between Buddhism and Shaivism. The pieces in Part 2 explore other aspects of Nepal and the Himalayas, such as tribal culture, colonisation and commerce. Discussing a range of linguistic, cultural, sociological and economic topics, this collection remains relevant to scholars working in these fields.
Table of Contents
- Part I: 1. Notices of the languages, literature, and religion of Nepal and Tibet
- 2. Sketch of Buddhism
- 3. Quotations from original Sanskrit authorities
- 4. European speculations on Buddhism
- 5. Remarks on M. Remusat's review of Buddhism
- 6. Note on the inscription from Sarnath
- 7. Notice of Adi Buddha and the seven mortal Buddhas
- 8. Note on the primary language of the Buddhist writings
- 9. A disputation respecting caste by a Buddhist
- 10. On the extreme resemblance that prevails between many of the symbols of Buddhism and Saivism
- 11. The Pravrajya Vrata or initiatory rites of the Buddhists
- Part II: 1. On the physical geography of the Himalaya
- 2. On the aborigines of the Himalaya
- 3. Origin and classification of the military tribes of Nepal
- 4. On the Chepang and Kusunda tribes of Nepal
- 5. Cursory notice of Nayakot and of the remarkable tribes inhabiting it
- 6. On the tribes of northern Tibet and of Sifan
- 7. On the colonization of the Himalaya by Europeans
- 8. On the commerce of Nepal
- Index.
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