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About the Author
Friedrich Max Müller K.M. (Ph.D. Philology Leipzig University 1843)—generally known as Max Müller or F. Max Müller—was the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University and an Orientalist who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology and the Sacred Books of the East a 50-volume set of English translations was prepared under his direction.
Müller became a naturalized British citizen in 1855. In 1869 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as a foreign correspondent. He was awarded the Pour le Mérite (civil class) in 1874 and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art the following year. In 1888 he was appointed Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow delivering the first in what has proved to be an ongoing annual series of lectures at several Scottish universities to the present day. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1896.
About The Book
The Buddha for Buddha is an appellative meaning Enlightened was born at Kapilavastu The capital of a kingdom of the same name situated at the foot of the mountains of Nepal north of the present Oude. His father the king of Kapilavastu was of the family of the Sakyas and belonged to the clan of the Gautamas. His mother was Mayadevi daughter of king Suprabuddha and need we say that she was as beautiful as he was powerful and just? Buddha was therefore by birth of the Kshatriya or warrior caste and he took the name of Sakya from his family and that of Gautama from his clan claiming a kind of spiritual relationship with the honoured race of Gautama. The name of Buddha or the Buddha dates from a later period of his life and so probably does the name Siddhartha (he whose objects have been accomplished) though we are told that it was given him in his childhood. His mother died seven days after his birth and the father confided the child to the care of his deceased wife s sister who however had been his wife even before the mother s death. The child grew up a most beautiful and most accomplished boy who soon knew more than his masters could teach him. He refused to take part in the games of his playmates and never felt so happy as when he could sit alone lost in meditation in the deep shadows of the forest. It was there that his father found him when he had thought him lost and in order to prevent the young prince from becoming a dreamer the king determined to marry him at once. When the subject was mentioned by the aged ministers to the future heir to the throne he demanded seven days for reflection and convinced at last that not even marriage could disturb the calm of his mind he allowed the ministers to look out for a princess. The princess selected was the beautiful Gopa the daughter of Dandapani. Though her father objected at first to her marrying a young prince who was represented to him as deficient in manliness and intellect he gladly gave his consent when he saw the royal suitor distancing all his rivals both in feats of arms and power of mind.
Publisher : Winsome Books India (30 August 2005); Winsome Book India
Language : English
Paperback : 142 pages
ISBN-10 : 818804329X
ISBN-13 : 978-8188043293
Reading age : 7 years and up
Item Weight : 500 g
Dimensions : 13.7 x 1.3 x 21.3 cm