Eberhard (alias) Edward Conze
[18.03.1904 - 24.09.1979]
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The Memoirs of A Modern Gnostic - Part I Life and Letters Sherborne 1979 |
Preface … iv-v |
I: 1904-1933 |
Family Background … 1 Schools and Dr. Lietz … 4 Militarism and Buddhism … 6 Universities … 7 The Nazis … 10 |
II: 1933-1948 |
First days in London … 11 Ellen Wilkinson and R.H. Tawney … 12 J.P.M. Millar and the NCLC … 14 Books written with Ellen Wilkinson … 15 Spain to-day … 18 Reasons for quitting politics … 20 My first marriage … 28 The importance of Jews in my life … 28 Women in my life … 29 The rediscovery of Buddhism … 30 The rediscovery of astrology … 31 The Psychology of Mass Propaganda … 33 More work on philosophy … 35 Move to Godshill 1940 … 38 Work as a Conscientious Objector … 43 Psychic, and other, faculties … 46 Move to Oxford … 47 Change of Wife … 48 Work in Oxford … 49 The gestation of Buddhism … 50 Reflections on my life so far … 51 |
III: 1948-1977 |
The years after the War … 56 Buddhism … 59 Buddhist Texts begun … 62 Move to London and Ladbroke Square … 62 On standardizing Buddhist terminology … 65 Buddhist Texts completed … 67 Publications through G. Tucci … 68 Activities connected with the London Buddhist Society … 73 The Birds and Buddhist Meditation … 80 Increasing discontent with Classes … 85 The work on Prajñāpāramitā up to 1960 … 86 Providence provides three large gifts … 98 Moves to Datchet, Cox Green and Sherborne … 102 Buddhist Thought in India … 106 Four decisive events in 1962 … 108 Professor in Madison, Wisc. 1963-64 … 114 Mx sixties … 119 My seventies … 132 Literary Work between 1962 and 1978 … 133 |
Appendices: |
Political Articles between 1933 and 1939 … 147 1959 Letter to Prof. von Glasenapp … 153 Bibliography … 154 The Foreign Quotations … 158-60 |
The Memoirs of A Modern Gnostic - Part I »surveys my intellectual developement, including those factors which helped or hindered it« |
You can never do anything
which does not do itself
Memoirs, Part II: p. 65