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NOTICE TO THE THIED EDITION. 



of Mr. B. H. Hodgson and the toilsome researches of M. CsoMA 

 of Korros in Transylvania ; and the minutest details of the doc- 

 trines and ceremonies of the former have been unfolded in the 

 elaborate anl comprehensive collections of Mr. Spence Haedy.^ 

 From materials discovered by these and other earnest inquirers. 

 Buddhism in its general aspect has been ably delineated in the 

 dissertations of Buenouf'^ and Saint Hilaire^, and in the com- 

 mentaries of Remusat^, Stanislas Julien^, Foucaux^ Lassen'', 

 and Weber.® The portion thus added to the present edition 

 has been to a great extent taken from a former work of mine on 

 the local superstitions of Ceylon, and the " Introduction and 

 Progress of Christianity^'' there; and as the section relating 

 to Buddhism had the advantage, previous to publication, of 

 being submitted to the Rev. Mr. Gogeely, the most accom- 

 plished Pali scholar, as well as the most erudite student of 

 Buddhistical literature in the island, I submit it with confi- 

 dence as an accurate summary of the distinctive views of the 

 Singhalese on the leading doctrines of their national faith. 



A writer in the Saturday Revietv^, in alluding to the passage 

 in which I have sought to establish the identity of the ancient 

 Tarshish with the modern Point de Gralle^", admits the force of 

 the coincidence adduced, that the Hebrew terms for " ivory, 

 apes, and peacocks"'' (the articles imported in the ships 

 of Solomon) are identical with the Tamil names, by which 



^ Eastern Monachism, an accoimt 

 of tlie origin, laws, discipline, sacred 

 writings, mysterious rites, religious 

 ceremonies, and present circum- 

 stances of the Order of Mendicants, 

 foimded by Gotoma Budlia. 8vo. 

 Lond. 1850 ; and A Manual of Bud- 

 hism in its 3Ioclern Develo2)mcnt. 8vo. 

 Lond. 1853. 



2 Bttrnotjf, Introdiiction h VHis- 

 toirc dii Botiddhisme Indien. 4to. Paris. 

 1845 ; and translation of the Lotus 

 de la bonne Lot. 



^ J. Barthelemt Saint-IIilatre, 



Le Bouddha et sa Religion. 8yo. Paris. 

 1860. 



^ Introduction and Notes to the 

 Foe Koue Ki of Fa Hian. 



^ Life and travels of Hiotjen 

 Thsang. 



^ Translation of Lalitavistdra by 

 M. Pn. Ed. Foucaiix, 



^ Author of the Indische Alter- 

 thumskunde ; «&:c. 



^ A\\i\\oii: oit\\Q Indische Stiidien; Sec. 



9 Novemb. 19, 1859, p. 012. 

 10 See Vol. II. Pt. vii., c. i. p. 102. 

 " 1 Kinffs, X. 22. 



