{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/bit/index.htm","path":"bud/bit/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/bit/index.htm","text":"LITERARY DOCUMENTS AND OBJECTS OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.\nWITH AN\nACCOUNT OF THE BUDDHIST SYSTEMS PRECEDING IT IN INDIA.\nBY\nEMIL SCHLAGINTWEIT, LL.D.\n[1863]\nThis mid-19th Century work is one of the few public domain descriptions of\nTibetan Buddhism we have found.\nDesipte the sketchy knowledge of Buddhism in Europe at the time, this has\na surprising level of detail about the subject, due to the pioneering\nfield work of the authors' brothers.\nSome of the information in this book about\nsacred documents, divination methods, calendrical systems,\nas well as details of rituals\nand ritual objects is unique.","title":"Buddhism in Tibet Index","type":"page"}