Lectures on the science of religion; with a paper on Buddhist nihilism,and a translation of the Dhammapada or "Path of virtue"

Muller, F. Max (Mueller, Friedrich Max), first professor of comparative philology in the University of Oxford, 1823-1900.

Published by New York: 1893., Charles Scribner's Sons,

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iv, 300 p.; 19.5 cm. [First thus in 1872] The four lectures, delivered in 1870, first appeared in Frazer's magazine from February-May of the same year, and were reset for this edition. Max Muller issued the lectures, with notes and two different essays, in book form at London in 1873 as: Introducton to the science of religion. -- The lecture `Uber den Buddhistischen Nihilismus' was delivered and published at Kiel in 1869. -- Muller's version of the Dhammapada (423 verses in 26 books), from the Pali, first appeared in the introduction to `Buddhaghosha's parables', translated by T. Rogers, in 1870. Good orig. brown cloth, spine ends frayed, eps cracked at hinges.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures on the science of religion; with a paper on Buddhist nihilism,and a translation of the Dhammapada or "Path of virtue"
• Publisher: New York: 1893., Charles Scribner's Sons,
• Binding: Hardcover