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Buddhism

Christmas Humphreys

  • 256 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1951
  • 17 editions
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1 About this book

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Good for readers who want: Buddhism and history.

  • Buddha and Buddhism
  • Buddhism
  • History
  • Buddha (The concept)
  • Doctrines

2 About Christmas Humphreys

1901–1983

Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC (15 February 1901 – 13 April 1983) was a British jurist who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and who later became a judge at the Old Bailey. He also wrote a number of works on Mahayana Buddhism and in his day was the best-known British convert to Buddhism.

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