Buddhism And Immortality

by William Sturgis Bigelow

Overview

Buddhism And Immortality

by William Sturgis Bigelow

A essay on Karma and Nirvana in the light of Darwin and Emerson.

This work is taken from the Ingersoll Lecture series. The view of immortality of man is, broadly speaking, that of the Buddhist religion. Buddhism, like many other great religions, is divided into main churches and subdivided into sects. These divisions in Buddhism are commonly called the Northern and the Southern Buddhism. The Northern has its center in the north of India, in Nepal; while the Southern is centered in Ceylon.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940012169914
Publisher:	Apps Publisher
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	705 KB

About the Author

"William Sturgis Bigelow (1850-1926) was a doctor and great American collector of Japanese art. He was one of the first Americans to live in Japan, and to introduce the American public to Japanese art and culture. He was also among those who worked to establish protections for Japanese art during a time when the Japanese were willing to sell or destroy elements of their own traditional culture in a fervor of Westernization and modernization.

A brilliant medical student, Bigelow received his degree in medicine from Harvard University in 1874, and continued his medical studies in Europe for five years, under Louis Pasteur. Though his primary interest was, accordingly, bacteriology, his father was a surgeon, and so he was pressured to perform surgery as well.