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A General Index to the Names and Subject-matter of the Sacred Books of the East: The Sacred Books of the East, Volume L (in Fifty Volumes) - Couverture souple

 
9781646798285: A General Index to the Names and Subject-matter of the Sacred Books of the East: The Sacred Books of the East, Volume L (in Fifty Volumes)

Synopsis

The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into English by authorities in their respective fields, these sacred texts have been edited by F. Max Muller and have profoundly influenced civilization. A General Index-The Sacred Books of the East (1910) is volume L of The Sacred Books of the East, a series available from Cosimo Classics, and was compiled by M. Winternitz and contains an index of the names and subject matter found in the previous forty-nine volumes.

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À propos de l'auteur

M. WINTERNITZ (1863-1937) was born in Austria and became interested in Indology after working with F. Max Müller at Oxford University. An authority on Sanskrit, he held numerous positions at the university level. F. MAX MÜLLER (1823-1900) was a German author and orientalist who lived in England most of his life. As a professor at Oxford, he combined the studies of language, culture, and religion to create the discipline of comparative mythology. His body of work included The Sacred Books of the East, which he had edited.

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