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Containing an answer to the "Hibert Lectures of 1881" With five illustrations Chiefly based on the Lalitavistara. p This book offers a complete and reader-friendly account of the life of the Buddha, and the foundational tenets of Buddhism. It was written to counter the claims, made in lectures delivered in 1881, of other scholars, who treated Buddhism and the Buddha academically, and glanced over the philosophical and spiritual side. The author was a staunch Buddhist, and presents his narrative to re-enforce the metaphysical side of the subject. There are 24 chapters in this book that notice, apart from the thorough survey of the life of the Buddha, topics like king Asoka, the Buddhist convocations, Mahayana, the Brahmajala sutra, the Mahaparinirvana sutra, Buddhaghosa, the Buddhist Triad, Shamanism, Cosmology, etc. There are five illustrations in this book, which was first published in 1883.