Item #100515 The Light of Asia or the Great Renunciation (Mahabinishkramana). Being the Life and Teachings of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist). Edwin Arnold.

The Light of Asia or the Great Renunciation (Mahabinishkramana). Being the Life and Teachings of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist).

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1890. Small octavo, highly decorated boards with floral pattern in colours and gilt, all edges gilt, frontis author portrait, tissue-guard, b&w illus, pp viii, 240. Previous owners inscriptions. Edges and corners rubbed, some fraying and darkened spine, contents clean. Very good condition.

The life of Buddha, in the form of a narrative poem by an imagined Buddhist. One of the first attempts when published in 1879 to popularise Buddhism for a Western audience. Item #100515

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