Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3) by Charles Eliot This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3) An Historical Sketch Author: Charles Eliot Release Date: August 19, 2005 [EBook #16546] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber’s Note: Link to Volume One Excerpts from the Preface to the book from Volume 1, regarding the method of transcription used. “In the following pages I have occasion to transcribe words belonging to many oriental languages in Latin characters. Unfortunately a uniform system of transcription, applicable to all tongues, seems not to be practical at present. It was attempted in the Sacred Books of the East, but that system has fallen into disuse and is liable to be misunderstood.