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Excerpt from A German Scholar in the East: Travel Scenes and Reflections The author of the German original of this book, Dr H. Hackmann (recently appointed Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Amsterdam), has spent a large part of his life in the Far East. In 1894 (being then lecturer at the University of Gottingen) he went to China in order to take up the position of German pastor in Shanghai. Here he remained for the next seven or eight years, devoting his leisure to the study of China, her people, her language, and especially her religion. From 1901 to 1903 he travelled extensively in the Far East, through Korea, Japan, China, and Burma. From the east coast of China he penetrated as far as the Burmese frontier, and down the Irrawaddy river. An account of a part of this journey was published in 1905, under the title of "Vom Omi bis Bhamo," which passed through a second edition in 1907. Dr Hackmann's chief purpose was the study of Buddhism, and with this object in view he spent much time in Buddhist monasteries, and thereby gathered valuable information. The result was collected and published in a book entitled "Der Buddhismus" (Halle, 1905), which was translated into English, 1910, under the title of "Buddhism as a Religion" (Probsthain & Co., London). 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.