B. H. Hodgson Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Mr Hodgson's improved and extended Views, so far as Buddhism is con cerned, were found embodied in numerous marginal notes in his own Copy of the Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of the Buddhists (serampore, In the same way many manuscript additions were made by him in his own copy of the Selections. All these corrections and additions have been introduced into the text of the present reprint, though they represent, as is only just to Mr Hodgson to state, various phases of his Views, ranging over a period of nearly thirty years. Professor Summers further proposed to Mr Hodgson to issue these reprints in a collected form as a separate publication, to which proposition the latter gave his ready consent.