Lectures on the Science of Religion: With a Paper on Buddhist Nihilism, and a Translation of the Dhammapada or Path (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Müller, F. Max

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0666760160 ISBN 13: 9780666760166

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Lectures on the Science of Religion: With a Paper on Buddhist Nihilism, and a Translation of the Dhammapada or Path

In beginning to-day a course of lectures on the Sci ence of Religion, - or I should rather say on some pre liminary points that have to be settled before we can enter upon a truly scientific study°of the religions of the world, - I feel as I felt when first pleading in this very place for the Science of Language.

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Max Muller (1823 1900) was a professor at Oxford University and a pioneer in the study of comparative religion. He provided the earliest English translations of many of the Hindu and Buddhist scriptures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0666760160
• ISBN 13: 9780666760166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308