Note 368 — LECTURE VI. THE TWO RELIGIONS IN HISTORY.

Buddhism, however, introduced into Tibet the benefits of the art of writing, the reduction of its language to an alphabet, and grammar; and not only the sacred literature represented by the collection of the Kandjur, but the very miscellaneous literature of the Tandjur. Several of its Buddhist missionaries and the kings who favoured them were really great men. Kublai Khan and the first Lamistic Pope Phags-pa, 1259-94, rendered lasting service to the cause of civilisation. See Köppen’s Die Lamaische Hierarchie und Kirche, being vol. ii. of his celebrated and most laborious work, Die Religion des Buddha; T. W. Rhys Davids, Art. Lamaism, Encyc. Brit. vol. xiv.; Sir Monier Williams, Buddhism, pp. 262-302.