Excerpt from Buddhism in Translations: Passages Selected From the Buddhist Sacred Books and Translated From the Original Pali Into EnglishTnn volumes of the harvard oriental series are printed at the expense of funds given to Harvard University by Henry Clarke Warren (1854 of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The third volume, War ren's Buddhism, is a noble monument to his courage in adversity and to his scholarship. The Series, as a contribution to the work of enabling the Occident to understand the Orient, is the fruit of an enlightened liber ality which now seems to have been an almost prophetic anticipation on his part of a great political need.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.