About the book-: In the first part of this work, we have endeavoured to give a substantial and connected analysis, and frequently literal translations, of the greater part of the historical or legendary texts contained in the Tibetan Dulva or Vinayapitaka, which is unquestionably the most trustworthy, and probably the oldest portion of the Bkah-hgyur. By frequent reference to the pages of the original (the East India Office copy of the Bkah-hgyur), we hope we will have facilitated researches in the cumbrous Tibetan volumes, to which no indices are attached. Some of the passages of this volume have been analysed by Anton Schiefner in his Tibetische Libensbescriebung Qakyamuni (St. Petersburg, 1849), but as the work from which he translated them was composed by a Tibetan lama of the seventeenth century, it could hardly be considered as authoritative, and it has been thought advisable not to omit these documents in their original Tibetan form. About The Author -: William Woodville Rockhill (1854 – 1914) was a United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S.'s Open Door Policy for China, the first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading experts on the modern political history of China. In 1876, Rockhill returned to the United States, and on December 14, 1876, he married his childhood sweetheart, Caroline Tyson, daughter of J. Washington Tyson and Marie Louise (Hewling) Tyson of Philadelphia. The couple purchased a cattle ranch in New Mexico, but Rockhill concluded that ranching was not to his liking. By 1880, he had completed a French language translation of the Tibetan version of the Udanavarga, which was published in 1881. He sent an account of his travels to the Smithsonian Institution for publication (as The Land of the Lamas (1891)), and in 1893, he was awarded the Gold Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Rockhill wrote a glossary of Salar in his 1894 book Diary of a Journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892. During the administration of President of the United States Grover Cleveland, Rockhill served as Third Assistant Secretary of State from April 17, 1894. The Title 'The Life Of The Buddha And The Early History Of His Order written/authored/edited by W. Woodville Rockhill', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121223577 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 289 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-
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