Excerpt from Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nep l and Tibet Mr Hodgson's improved and extended Views, so far as Buddhism is con cerned, were found embodied in numerous marginal notes in his own Copy of the Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of the Buddhists (serampore, In the same way many manuscript additions were made by him in his own copy of the Selections. All these corrections and additions have been introduced into the text of the present reprint, though they represent, as is only just to Mr Hodgson to state, various phases of his Views, ranging over a period of nearly thirty years. Professor Summers further proposed to Mr Hodgson to issue these reprints in a collected form as a separate publication, to which proposition the latter gave his ready consent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.