Les livres sacrés de toutes les religions, sauf la bible - Vol. 2 (Pauthier and Brunet 1858)
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Les livres sacrés de toutes les religions, sauf la bible. Vol. 2
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This is the second volume of a two-volume anthology assembled by Jean-Pierre Guillaume Pauthier and Pierre Gustave Brunet for the prolific Catholic publisher Abbé Jacques-Paul Migne, as part of his broader project of producing encyclopedic reference collections for the French clergy. True to its title — "The Sacred Books of All Religions, Except the Bible"—the volume surveys non-Christian scripture across several traditions, organized into five sections: the sacred books of the Indians (p. 7), the religious books of the Buddhists (p. 473), the religious books of the Parsis/Zoroastrians (p. 714), the religious books of the Chinese (p. 781), and the religious books of various other peoples (p. 796).
The Buddhist section is of particular note for Tibetan and Buddhist studies: it reprints Philippe Édouard Foucaux's pioneering 1847–48 French translation of the Lalitavistara (Tib. Rgya tch'er rol pa), including Foucaux's own original preface, in which he identifies himself as the first person to translate the Lalitavistara into a European language. Rather than presenting an independent Pauthier–Brunet rendering, this section functions as a republication of Foucaux's translation within Migne's larger comparative-religion compendium—making the volume a secondary vehicle for Foucaux's work rather than a fresh scholarly translation in its own right.
Citation
Pauthier, Jean-Pierre Guillaume, and Pierre Gustave Brunet, eds. Les livres sacrés de toutes les religions, sauf la bible. Vol. 2. Paris: J. P. Migne, 1858. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082032312&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021.
Table of contents
- Livres sacrés des Indiens7
- Livres religieux des Bouddhistes473
- Livres religieux des Parsis714
- Livres religieux des Chinois781
- Livres religieux des divers peuples796
Interconnections
1 Full translation of
The Play in Full tells the story of how the Buddha manifested in this world and attained awakening, as perceived from the perspective of the Great Vehicle. The sūtra, which is structured in twenty-seven chapters, first presents the events surrounding the Buddha’s birth, childhood, and adolescence in the royal palace of his father, king of the Śākya nation. It then recounts his escape from the palace and the years of hardship he faced in his quest for spiritual awakening. Finally the sūtra reveals his complete victory over the demon Māra, his attainment of awakening under the Bodhi tree, his first turning of the wheel of Dharma, and the formation of the very early saṅgha. (Source: 84000)
1 Contains chapter or part
This is Philippe Édouard Foucaux's French translation of the Lalitavistarasūtra, published in vol. 2 of Les livres sacrés de toutes les religions, sauf la bible.
