Eastern monachism: an account of the origin, laws, discipline, sacred writings, mysteriousrites, religious ceremonies, and present circumstances, of the order of mendicants founded by Gótama Budha, (compiled from Singhalese mss. and other original sources of information)
Subtitle: with comparative notices of the ... western ascetics, anda 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: 444
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders, Buddhist.; Buddha and Buddhism.