[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order # Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order Indian background, life of the Buddha, doctrine (suffering, causation, nirvāṇa), the order and lay community, with excursuses on Pāli sources. - **Language:** English - **Date:** 1854–1920 CE - **Authors:** [Hermann Oldenberg](https://indike.org/pramana/person/oldenberg), [William Hoey](https://indike.org/pramana/person/hoey-w) - **Extent:** 1,667 passages, 145,399 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · English tr. by W. Hoey, London: Williams & Norgate 1882; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite;… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Hermann Oldenberg †1920; William Hoey †1919);… ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c1) — 13 parts - [c2 Translator's Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c2) — 8 parts - [c3 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c3) — 14 parts - [c4 Chapter IV.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c4) — 6 parts - [c5 Chapter II.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c5) — 7 parts - [c6 Chapter III.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c6) — 23 parts - [c7 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c7) — 17 parts - [c8 Part I. Buddha's Life](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c8) — 222 parts - [c9 Part II. The Doctrines of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c9) — 3 parts - [c10 Part III. The Order of Buddha's Disciples](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c10) — 105 parts - [c11 Excursus](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c11) — 3 parts - [c12 Indices](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882.c12) — 2 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.oldenberg-1882) · Pramāṇa