Legends Of Indian Buddhism - PAPERBACK

About the book:-Among the many religious beliefs originating in the speculative oriental mind, Buddhism is one, which becomes increasingly attractive to Occidentals. Dissatisfied with the system of rewards and punishments mitigated by sacrifice and mercy, to which the race has so long been enslaved, the modern mind of the West is inclined to favour a creed which teaches that good inevitably brings forth good, and evil. Moreover, Buddhism in its purity ignored the existence of a God, it denied the existence of a God, it denied the existence of a soul; it was not so much a religion as a code of ethics. The precise causes of the disappearance of Buddhism from India are as undermined. It has been suggested that Ashoka’s munificent gifts to the order of Buddhist monks, by fostering a corrupt and worldly spirit among the disciples of the Master, contributed to the expansion of his faith from the land of its birth. This book is a translation of a French work by the author, who foresees a bright future of this religion. It comprises of the legends and history of the Buddhist king Ashoka. About the Author:-Eugène Burnouf was a French scholar, an Indologist and orientalist. His notable works include a study of Sanskrit literature, translation of the Hindu text Bhagavata Purana and Buddhist text Lotus Sutra. He wrote an introductory text on Buddhism and also made significant contributions to the deciphering of Old Persian cuneiform. At about the same time in his life, Eugène Burnouf made significant contributions to the deciphering of Old Persian cuneiform. Copies of cuneiform inscriptions from Persepolis had been published by Carsten Niebuhr many years earlier in 1778 and some preliminary inferences had already been made by other scholars such as Georg Friedrich Grotefend about these Persian inscriptions. Burnouf discovered that the first of the inscriptions contained a list of the satrapies of Darius.