Author:Caroline Augusta Rhys Davids

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Caroline Augusta Rhys Davids
(1857–1942)

English editor, translator, and interpreter of Buddhist texts

Caroline Augusta Rhys Davids

Works[edit]

  • Buddhism: A Study of the Buddhist Norm (1912)
  • Buddhist Psychology: An Inquiry into the Analysis and Theory of Mind in Pali Literature (1914)
  • Old Creeds and New Needs (1923)
  • The Will to Peace (1923)
  • Will & Willer (1926)
  • Gotama the Man (1928)
  • Sakya: or, Buddhist Origins (1928)
  • Stories of the Buddha : Being Selections from the Jataka (1929)
  • Kindred Sayings on Buddhism (1930)
  • The Milinda-questions: An Inquiry into its Place in the History of Buddhism with a Theory as to its Author (1930)
  • A Manual of Buddhism for Advanced Students (1932)
  • Outlines of Buddhism: A Historical Sketch (1934)
  • Buddhism: Its Birth and Dispersal (1934)
  • Indian Religion and Survival: A Study (1934)
  • The Birth of Indian Psychology and its Development in Buddhism (1936)
  • To Become or not to Become (That is the Question!): Episodes in the History of an Indian Word (1937)
  • What is your Will (1937)
  • What was the original gospel in 'Buddhism'? (1938)
  • More about the Hereafter (1939)
  • Wayfarer's Words, V. I-III (1942)

Translations[edit]

  • A Buddhist manual of psychological ethics or Buddhist Psychology, of the Fourth Century B.C., being a translation, now made for the first time, from the Original Pāli of the First Book in the Abhidhamma-Piţaka, entitled Dhamma-Sangaṇi (Compendium of States or Phenomena), Includes an original 80 page introduction (1900)
  • Psalms of the Early Buddhists: Volume I. Psalms of the Sisters (1909)
  • Points of controversy; or, Subjects of discourse; being a translation of the Kathā-vatthu from the Abhidhamma-piṭaka with Shwe Zan Aung (1915)

Works about Rhys Davids[edit]

"Davids, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys," in The Indian Biographical Dictionary, by C. Hayavadana Rao, Madras: Pillar & Co. (1915)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1940, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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