Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Ancient Pillar Stones of Scotland; Their Significance and Bearing on Ethnology

Ancient Pillar Stones of Scotland; Their Significance and Bearing on Ethnology

Moore, George

Paperback

British History

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1459031474
ISBN13: 9781459031470
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1865. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ETHNIC NOTICES. WHENCE CAME BRITISH BUDDHISM? Supposing we have rightly interpreted the inscriptions on the Newton Stone, we naturally inquire whence came the people who raised and who read such a memorial. There is certainly no trace of any nation that employed characters like those of the longer inscription, but that which, at least five centuries before the Christian era, dwelt in Ariana Antiqua, which nearly corresponds with the present Afghanistan.* The people of that region, as we learn from coins, from inscriptions, and from history, were for the most part converts to Buddhism. * Ariana or Aria is the territory of which Herat is the capital. It is the same as the Eeran of the Persians, being the general name of the country east of Media and Persia, extending as far as the Indus. Bactria, the neighbouring country to the north, included the lands watered by the Oxus and its tributaries. Ariana has always been the high-road of Asiatic conquest, the battle-field of every nation that has risen to dominion in the East. Its history would tell us much of the history of the world, but what we really know of it is derived rather from the study of ancient coins recovered from its soil than from anything ancient writers have recorded. The work of Professor H. H. Wilson, Ariana Antiqua, contains a scholarly account of nearly all the intelligence attainable concerning it. H We will not now ask how people from that country could have had any connexion with Scotland. We know that Buddhism in some form did reach Western Europe and the north-east of Scotland long before Christianity existed there, and as Buddhism originated in Northern India, it must have found some means of extending itself thence up to the British shores, carrying with it the ideas of the far East, an...

Also in

British History

View All