12. A Note on Buddhism, 
[Read before the Society on 30th January, 1913.] 
By Pror. Dr. H. OLDENBERG. 
the pleasures which the European Indologist 
your own. The idea of the Society which I carried in m 
mind now is replaced by vivid intuition, and my connexion 
with the Society thus acquires a deeper, more real meaning 
or me. 
It would be a source of high gratification to me if, on this 
occasion of meeting you, I were in a position to place before 
you some new results of labours of mine, and to consider to- 
not prepared to do so. I have come to India not with the full 
literary apparatus which would be required for an attempt of 
the kind, but only with the light equipment of the tourist. I 
i i able to plac 
you any detailed account of recent investigations. I must 
considera 
I must ask for your indulgence ; in trave 
quite in the same way as one works 
work, i ’s quiet study. 
Then thirty 4 rst entered the arena of Bud- 
en rs ago I fi 
dhistic research 4 fe myself surrounded by the turmoil of the 
