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Turnour, who published a summation of "the Buddhist literature of Ceylon, and who composed in the sacred language of that island, the ancient Pali" (Lopez 54) in 1834, the linguistic pieces were in place.
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007
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Hardy defines it as meaning “perfect tranquillity;” Turnour, as
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See _Mah [= a] vamsa_, ch.xxxvii. (ed. Turnour, Colombo, 1837);
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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It contains word for word almost the whole of the life of Gautama given by Turnour, from a commentary on the
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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Turnour, up the Undop; another, under Mr. D'Aeth, up the Lupar; while
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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Turnour, Jimmy Reynolds, the clown whose salary of one hundred dollars a week had so excited the cupidity of Alfred; Woody Cook, who came from
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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Prinsep, Rennell, Turnour, Upham, Wallich, Warren, Wilkins, Wilson, and many others, are hardly known beyond the small circle of Oriental scholars; and their works are looked for in vain in libraries which profess to represent with a certain completeness the principal branches of scholarship and science in England.
India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861
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It is just the book which was wanted to dispel the erroneous notions about Buddhism, which are still current among educated men, and to excite an interest which may lead those who are naturally frightened by the appalling proportions of Buddhist literature, and the uncouth sounds of Buddhist terminology, to a study of the quartos of Burnouf, Turnour, and others.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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Similar inscriptions have been discovered throughout India, proving to the satisfaction of such scholars as Burnouf, Prinsep, Turnour, Lassen, Weber, Max Müller, and
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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Forbes, who was then the resident at Matelle, formed an honourable exception; and his narrative of _Eleven Years in Ceylon_ shows with what ardour and success he shared the tastes and cultivated the studies to which he had been directed by the genius and example of Turnour.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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