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…

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…

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 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 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.

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…

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…