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L Austine Waddell
This book contains the great epic poem of the ancient Britons on the exploits of King Thor, Arthur or Adam and his knights in establishing civilization reforming Eden and capturing…
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Lhasa and Its Mysteries describes the political background of the mission, brutal military clashes, the immobilizing effects of the Tibetan winter on troop movements, the advance to Lhasa and role…
A highly illustrated volume on Buddhism and Lamaism. Contains notes on pronunciation and a list of commonly used abbreviations. Contents: historical; doctrinal; monastic; buildings; mythology and the gods; ritual and…
And Sumerian origin of Egyptian hieroglyphs, with 21 plates, 97 text illustrations and 2 maps. In spite of the advances in our knowledge of ancient Egypt, two basic questions of…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented…
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
L. Austine Waddell
Laurence Austine Waddell (1854-1938) spent twenty-five years as a medical officer in the colonial Indian Medical Service. This 1899 publication presents his colourful account of jungles, snakes, glaciers, yaks, dizzying…
Laurence Austine Waddell (1854-1938) served in the Indian Medical Service, which took him to Darjeeling, Burma and Tibet. Illustrated with photographs, maps and drawings, this 1905 publication presents his eyewitness…
THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism, by L. Austine Waddell. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766135055.
THIS 32 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism, by L. Austine Waddell. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766135055.
Discovering Sumerians of Indus Valley as Phoenicians, Barats, Goths and Famous Vedic Aryans. Contents: Sumerian origin of the Indoaryans and their civilization; sites of Indosumerian seals and associated buildings in…
Contents: Historical: Changes in Primitive Buddhism Leading to Lamaism; Spread of Lamaism; Sects of Lamaism. Doctrinal: Metaphysical Sources; Doctrine and Morality; Scripture and Literature. Monastic: Order of Lamas; routine; Hierarchy…
This fascinating book is about the history of human existence. The Rise of the Aryans or Sumerians; their origination and propagation of civilization; their extension of it to Egypt and…
This book is an historic outline of Lamaism in Sikhim. Waddell describes the Lamaism or Tibetan Buddhism religion while providing information based on his own personal studies of Lamas while…
Contents: Ancestry of the Alphabets re The Phoenicians; Alphabetic Letters in Pre-Dynastic and Early-Dynastic Egypt and Theories Thereon; How the Sumerian Origin of the Alphabet was Discovered; The Alphabetic Vowel…
Part I. A-F. An Etymological Lexicon of the English and Other Aryan Languages Ancient and Modern and the Sumerian Origin of Egyptian and its Hieroglyphs. See other titles by this…
An account of the author’s travels in the 1890s in India and Sikkim, including sections on the Nepal and Tibet borders. As the author explains: During the past fourteen years…
THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism, by L. Austine Waddell. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766135055.
THIS 58 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism, by L. Austine Waddell. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766135055.
THIS 64 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism, by L. Austine Waddell. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766135055.
THIS 102 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism, by L. Austine Waddell. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766135055.
Partial Contents: Phoenicians Discovered to be Aryans. Undeciphered Phoenician Inscriptions. Decipherment and Translation. Personal, Ethnic and Geographic Phoenician Names and Titles. Who Were the Picts and Celts? Aryanizing Civilization of…
THIS 88 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism, by L. Austine Waddell. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766135055.
First published in 1906, this volume emerged three years after the British expedition across the Alps to Lhasa, in which the author took part, and provided a first-hand British account…
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