Essays on the Languages Literature and Religion of Nepal and Tibet

An English civil servant who worked in British India and Nepal Brian Houghton Hodgson (c.180194) was also a specialist in Tibetan Buddhism. First published in 1874 this is a collection of his essays on nineteenth-century Nepal and Tibet earlier versions of which had appeared in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society and two books of Hodgson''s own later updated for the Phoenix a monthly magazine for China Japan and eastern Asia. Diverse in coverage the essays represent over thirty years'' research. Those in Part 1 focus on Buddhism covering religious practices writing literature attitudes to Buddhism and the differences between Buddhism and Shaivism. The pieces in Part 2 explore other aspects of Nepal and the Himalayas such as tribal culture colonisation and commerce. Discussing a range of linguistic cultural sociological and economic topics this collection remains relevant to scholars working in these fields.