Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nepál and Tibet #261521

Mr Hodgson's improved and extended Views, so far as Buddhism is con cerned, were found embodied in numerous marginal notes in his own Copy of the Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of the Buddhists (serampore, In the same way many manuscript additions were made by him in his own copy of the Selections. All these corrections and additions have been introduced into the text of the present reprint, though they represent, as is only just to Mr Hodgson to state, various phases of his Views, ranging over a period of nearly thirty years. Professor Summers further proposed to Mr Hodgson to issue these reprints in a collected form as a separate publication, to which proposition the latter gave his ready consent.