[Ads-l] Antedating of "Buddhism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Buddhism (OED 1800)

1798 Thomas Maurice The History of Hindostan 501 (ECCO)

The extravagant doctrine of the Metempsychosis, incorported with the purer principles of genuine Buddhism ... only serve to display to us additional proofs of the folly and imbecillity of human nature.

Fred Shapiro


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