THREE LECTURES ox BUDDHISM. BUDDHISM: ITS THEORETICAL AND POPULARHISTORICAL, ASPECTS. BY ERNEST J. TUBING.EITEL, PH.D., THIRD EDITION. WITH ADDITIONS.EEVISED, LONDON : BNER & Co 1884. :HONGKONG Printed at the CAtiia Hail Office WYNDIIAM STREET. TO THE THIRD EDITION.PREFACE ofTHE with which the first edition these rapidity lectures was exhausted and the favour with which the book was received thegenerally by public press, especially in the author to theChina, encouraged satisfy continuing indemand for it a second which wasedition,by published un-the 1873. This second edition met withyear having both in and in a thirdsuccessexpected Europe America, edition is now called for. In view of the results urgently of more recent the whole has been revisedinvestigations, and extensive additions have been made here and there, but the form and the main ofsubstance theseoriginal lectures have but little alteration.undergone 1884.HOXGKONG, August, E. J. E. TO THE FIESTPREFACE EDITION. onTwo of the Buddhism formedfollowing- essays part of a series of delivered in inlectures,popular Hongkong of the winter 1870-71. Tothe course thecomplete plan laid down in the first it was to add aessay, third,necessary and the whole is herewith offered to the reader as a popu- of which is herelar sketch viewed under itsBuddhism, different as an event in as a ofhistory, systemaspects, and as a the cha-doctrine, religion.