Author: BIGANDET, PAUL AMBROISE:
Title: The Life, and Legend of Gaudama, the Budha of the Burmese, with annotations. The ways to Neibban, and notice on the phongyies or Burmese Monks. Rangoon, American Mission Press, 1866.
Description: . Pp. xi, (i), 538, v. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine, marbled edges and endpapers, rubbed. Old inscription on front end paper. Second enlarged edition (first 1858). An extensive work on Buddha and his doctrines. Based on the Burmese religious books and Bigandet's frequent conversations about religion amongst scholars. This second edition is greatly expanded with more information about Gautama's life as well as new details on the great intellectual processing of Gautama's mind while meditating under the Bodhi tree. Dedicated to Major A.P. Phayre, British commissioner of Burma 1862-7. Bigandet, a French Catholic missionary who came to Burma in 1837 and stayed there for most of his life. He established schools, orphanages and convents in Burma. Rare. See Herbert: World Biogr. series, vol. 132: Burma, pp. 140-145. Cordier BI 273, 290-91.

Keywords: Southeast Asia, burma, burmese, birma, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, buddha, religion, buddhist, buddhism, gaundama,


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