Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Lanman is having manuscripts copied in Burmah and Ceylon for the Harvard Oriental series. The College library in Rangoon is rich in Buddhist palm leaf books, and a transcript of one of these will soon be on its way to Cambridge...
Lecture. The Buddhist Order. Monasetries and the Monastic Life, Illustrated from the Monuments. Professor Lanman. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Lecture. The Buddhist Order. Monasetries and the Monastic Life, Illustrated from the Monuments. Professor Lanman. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Professor Lanman gave the second lecture in the course on Buddhism in the Fogg Art Museum last evening, taking as his subject, "The Dhamma or Buddhist Teaching...
...root of Buddhism, said Professor Lanman, is popular pessimism. The early Hindoos however, were not pessimists. It is only the later Hindoos who believed life not worth having. Transitoriness, misery, and lack of reality, are the three characteristics of the Buddhist belief. Buddhism then, is a psychology without a soul, combined with a belief in transmigration. This apparent inconsistency is explained by calling that which migrates or Karma, a balance in the debit and credit account with futurity...