BUDDHISM IN TIBET. INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE MATERIALS COLLECTED BY H., A., & R. DE SCHLAGINTWEIT DURING THE SCIENTIFIC MISSION TO INDIA AND HIGH ASIA. BUDDHISM IN TIBET ILLUSTRATED BY LITERARY DOCUMENTS AND OBJECTS OF WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE BUDDHIST SYSTEMS PRECEDING IT IN INDIA. BY EMIL SCHLAGINTWEIT, LL. D. WITH A FOLIO ATLAS OF TWENTY PLATES AND TWENTY TABLES OF NATIVE ΤΟ HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY WILLIAM I., KING OF WURTTEMBERG. SIRE, Most respectfully I approach to present to Your Majesty my researches on the Buddhist religion in Tibet; and I do so with a feeling of the deepest gratitude for Your Majesty's gracious permission. For even if I recall to my mind the far distant origin of the Buddhist faith, the various changes it has undergone, and its still existing influence as the dominant religion of hundreds of millions, the share such considerations might have had in my venturing to address Your Majesty, must disappear before the gracious, encouraging condescendence with which Your Majesty was pleased to receive a personal explanation of the materials which are now published in this work. I am, with profound respect, MUNICH, May 1863. Your Majesty's Most humble and obedient servant, THE AUTHOR. |
