Eastern monachism: an account of the origin, laws, discipline, sacred writings, mysterious rites, religious ceremonies, and present circumstances, of the order of mendicants founded by Gotama Budha, (compiled from Singhalese mss. and other original sources of information)
Subtitle: with comparative notices of the ... western ascetics, and a review of the monastic system.
By: By R. Spence Hardy ... 
Publisher: Williams and Norgate
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders, Buddhist.; Buddhism.