BUDDHISM: Its Historical, Theoretical and Popular Aspects In Three Lectures. by EITEL, Ernest J

London 1873, Trubner. New blue cloth, 122p., a bit of minor pencil marginalia, underline, else a very clean and solid copy. SECOND & BEST EDITION * This is a an early and scholarly study with 43 essays by the celebrated Sinologist. He covers Buddhism as an event in history. It's origins, legends, history, church in China and Tibet, Southern and Northern Buddhism. . The theoretical system, doctrines, dogmas, physics, metempsychosis, ethics and philosophy. . As a popular religion, its truths, defects, the objects of worship, Trinity, Goddess of Mercy, polytheism, monotheism, notions of atonement. * With brilliant conclusion. . * .