The Questions of King Milinda: Complete With Both Parts 1 and

The Questions of King Milinda: Complete With Both Parts 1 and 2 (With Active Table of Contents)

â€œMilinda has a marked style of its own, different alike from the formal exactness of most of the Pitaka texts, and from the later manner of any other Pali or Sanskrit-Buddhist authors as yet published. It is no doubt the charm of its style which has been one of the principal reasons for the great popularity of the book. Even a reader who takes no interest in the points that are raised, or in the method in which the questions are discussed, will be able, I trust, to see, even through the dark veil of a lame and wooden translation, what the merits of the original must be. And to a devout Buddhist, in whose eyes the book he was reading offered a correct solution of the most serious difficulties in religion, of the deepest problems of life,--to whose whole intellectual training and sympathies the way in which the puzzles are put, and solved, so exactly appealed,--to such a reader both the easy grace of the opening dialogue, as of a ship sailing in calm waters, and the real eloquence of occasional passages, more especially of the perorations by which the solutions are sometimes closed, must have been a continual feast. I venture to think that the 'Questions of Milinda' is undoubtedly the master-piece of Indian prose; and indeed is the best book of its class, from a literary point of view, that had then been produced in any country. Limits of space prevent the discussion of this last proposition, however interesting: and it would be, no doubt, difficult to prove that anything from India was better than the corresponding thing produced by our noble selves, or by those whose Karma we inherit. But in ancient Indian literature there are only two or three works which can at all compare with it. It ought not to seem odd that these also are Buddhist and Pali; that is, that they come from the same school. And while the Digha Nikaya may be held to excel it in stately dignity, the Visuddhi Magga in sustained power, and the Gataka book in varied humour, the palm will probably be eventually given to the 'Questions of Milinda' as a work of art.â€ - T. W. RHYS DAVIDS
Country USA
Author Thomas William Rhys Davids
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 445
PublicationDate 2011-07-18
ReleaseDate 2011-07-18

Country	USA
Author	Thomas William Rhys Davids
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	445
PublicationDate	2011-07-18
ReleaseDate	2011-07-18

The Questions of King Milinda: Complete With Both Parts 1 and 2 (With Active Table of Contents)

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