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Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet Brian Houghton Hodgson

Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet By Brian Houghton Hodgson

Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet by Brian Houghton Hodgson


Summary

First published in 1874, this is a collection of essays by an English civil servant and specialist in Tibetan Buddhism. Representing thirty years' research, the pieces explore Buddhist practices, writing, literature, culture and commerce, providing a detailed account of Nepal and the Himalayas in the nineteenth century.

Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet Summary

Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet: Together with Further Papers on the Geography, Ethnology, and Commerce of Those Countries by Brian Houghton Hodgson

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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NLS9781108056083
9781108056083
1108056083
Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet: Together with Further Papers on the Geography, Ethnology, and Commerce of Those Countries by Brian Houghton Hodgson
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