The Sacred Books of the East: Vinaya texts, pt. III
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Release : 1885
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Release : 1885
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Author : Friedrich Max Müller
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Page : 462 pages
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Release : 1969
Category : English literature
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Page : 468 pages
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Release : 1894
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Page : 410 pages
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Release : 1881
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Author : Friedrich Max Müller
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1894
Category : English literature
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Author : Friedrich Max Müller
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 1963
Category : English literature
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Page : 462 pages
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Release : 1885
Category : English literature
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Author : Friedrich Max Müller
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Page : 468 pages
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Release : 1894
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Page : 434 pages
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Release : 1963
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Author : Arie L. Molendijk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019108705X
This volume offers a critical analysis of one the most ambitious editorial projects of late Victorian Britain: the edition of the fifty substantial volumes of the Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910). The series was edited and conceptualized by Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Müller and his influential Oxford colleagues secured financial support from the India Office of the British Empire and from Oxford University Press. Arie L. Molendijk documents how the series has become a landmark in the development of the humanities-especially the study of religion and language-in the second half of the nineteenth century. The edition also contributed significantly to the Western perception of the 'religious' or even 'mystic' East, which was textually represented in English translations. The series was a token of the rise of 'big science' and textualized the East, by selecting their 'sacred books' and bringing them under the power of western scholarship.