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	FITZGERALD of Kildare
		Notes: at the death of her brother in 1175, her son Gerald was unanimously elected Bishop of St. David's by the Welsh and English canons of the diocese.
		Notes: known as "Silken Thomas" because of the silk fringes on the helmets of his horsemen.
		Was only ten years old when his brother Thomas was arrested and because his uncles had all been executed by the English government, he was the only survivng heir to the Earldom of Kildare.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /FITZGERALD1.htm (759 words)

	Thomas William Rhys Davids - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
		Thomas William Rhys Davids, brittisk indolog, född 12 maj 1843 i Colchester, död 27 december 1922; fil.dr. i Breslau, jur.dr. i Edinburgh, tjänstgjorde 1866-1867 som domare på Ceylon och var tillika "archeological commissioner" för brittiska regeringen.
		1877 slog sig Rhys Davids ned som advokat i London, blev 1883 professor i pali och buddhistisk litteratur vid "University College" därstädes och var samtidigt professor i jämförande religionsvetenskap vid universitetet i Manchester.
		Rhys Davids arbetade företrädesvis på den buddhistiska litteraturens och religionshistoriens område och utgav sammanfattande, mycket lästa arbeten, såsom Buddhism, a sketch of the life and teaching of Gautama, the Buddha (1878), Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Indian buddhism (1881) och Buddhist India (1904).
	sv.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_William_Rhys_Davids (203 words)

	Encyclopedia: Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Unlike her husband, C.A.F. Rhys Davids became strongly influenced by Theosophy; the terminology and beliefs of the latter religion are evident in her more personal writing, and, to some extent, shaped her "psychological" interpretation of many key Pali terms.
		As well as her academic work in Indian philosophy and the history of Buddhism, Rhys Davids did charitable work for women and children, and was a campaigner for women's suffrage The term philosophy derives from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom.
		Caroline and Thomas had three children, Vivien Brynhilda (1895), Nesta Enid (1900) and Arthur Rhys Davids (1897), a fighter ace killed in action during World War One Arthur Percival Foley Rhys Davids DSO, MC (with bar) was born in London on 26th October 1897.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Caroline-Augusta-Foley-Rhys-Davids (564 words)

	Thomas William Rhys Davids -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rhys Davids was well educated in (Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome) Latin at school.
		Rhys Davids became involved with the excavation of ancient Ceylonese city Anuradhapura, which had been abandoned after an invasion in (Click link for more info and facts about 993) 993.
		Unlike his wife, Davids was a lifelong critic and opponent of (Belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul) Theosophy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/Thomas_William_Rhys_Davids.htm (584 words)

	Pali Text Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rhys Davids was one of three British civil servants who were posted to Sri Lanka, in the 19th_century, the others being George Turnour, and Robert Caesar Childers (1838-1876).
		The Pali Text Society was founded on the model of the Early English Text Society with Rhys Davids counting on support from a lot of European scholars and Sri Lankan scholar monks.
		This was superseded in 1925 by the new Dictionary which had largely been compiled by T. Rhys Davids over 40 years, but was finished by his student William Stede.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pali_Text_Society (421 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sanskrit language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rhys Davids suggests that writing may have been introduced from the Middle East by traders, but Sanskrit, which had been used exclusively in sacred contexts, remained a purely oral language until well into India's classical age.
		It is interesting to note the importance that Sanskrit orthography and Vedic philosophy of sound play in Hindu symbolism, as the varnamala, or sound-garland/alphabet, of 51 letters is also seen to be represented by the 51 skulls of Kali.
		Thomas William Rhys Davids (May 12, 1843 - December 27, 1922) was an British scholar of the PÄli language and founder of the Pali Text Society.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sanskrit-language (7805 words)

	Thomas William Rhys Davids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas William Rhys Davids (May 12, 1843 - December 27, 1922)was an English scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pali Text Society.
		Rhys Davids became involved with the excavation of ancientCeylonese city Anuradhapura, which had been abandoned after an invasion in 993.
		From 1882 to 1904 Rhys Davids was Professor ofPali in the University of London, a post which carried no fixed salary other than lecture fees.
	www.therfcc.org /thomas-william-rhys-davids-41083.html (313 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Thomas William Rhys Davids
		His attempts to increase general public interest among Britons included a numerous "Historical Lectures" and papers advancing a racialist theory of the common "Aryan" ethnicity of the people of England, Sri Lanka, and the Buddha's own tribe in times gone by.
		These views are comparable to the racial theories of Max Müller, but were used to a different purpose: Davids tried to establish that Britons would have a natural, "racial" affinity with Buddhist doctrine.
		Unlike his wife, Davids was a lifelong critic and opponent of Theosophy.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Thomas_William_Rhys_Davids (679 words)

	Station Information - Pali Text Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rhys Davids was one of three British civil servants who were posted to Sri Lanka, in the 19th_century, the others being George Turnour, and Robert Caeser Childers (1838-1876).
		He married C.A.F Rhys Davids, a Pali scholar in her own right, in 1894.
		Rhys Davids: His contribution to Pali and Buddhist studies part1, part2
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pali_text_society.html (681 words)

	Read about Pali Text Society at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Pali Text Society and learn about Pali Text Society ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		T.W. Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pali texts".
		Rhys Davids was one of three British civil servants who were posted to Sri Lanka, in the
		Early English Text Society with Rhys Davids counting on support from a lot of European scholars and Sri Lankan scholar monks.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Pali_Text_Society (409 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"According to records, Rhys Davids came to know of Pali when he was confronted with texts of Buddhist Vinaya in the course of a trial he conducted as District Judge of Galla.
		In the course of this lectures, Rhys Davids announced his intention to establish the Pali Text Society for the exclusive purpose of translating and publishing Buddhist literature.
		Back to Rhys Davids and the Pali Text Society, the credit must be showered to the husband-wife duo whose pioneering efforts to learn Sinhala and Pali and Buddhist realizing the efficacy of the Buddha word they made an earnest endeavour to propagate the sublime teaching throughout the globe.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/10/18/fea05.html (1675 words)

	Thomas William Rhys Davids - LoveToKnow 1911
		"THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS DAVIDS (1843-), British orientalist, was born at Colchester May 12 1843.
		Educated at a school in Brighton and at Breslau University he entered the Ceylon civil service in 1866 and also read for the bar, becoming a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1877.
		This page was last modified 15:06, 27 Jul 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Thomas_William_Rhys_Davids (175 words)

	THE GENESIS OF AN ORIENTALIST: THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS DAVIDS IN SRILANKA
		It was left to Rhys Davids, virtually the first European scholar to devote himself exclusively to Pali and Buddhism, to unlock the key to Pali and point out to his contemporaries the rich vistas that lay beyond.
		Rhys David's relationship to Sri Lankan Buddhism and Pali was broadly analogous to that of Max Muller to India and Sanskrit.
		Rhys Davids, in short, was a pioneer in trans-cultural understanding and had a clear grasp of its issues.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDD587 (566 words)

	Thomas Guillermo Rhys Davids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas Guillermo Rhys Davids (de mayo el 12 de 1843 - de diciembre el 27 de 1922) era un erudito inglés de la lengua de Pli y del fundador de la sociedad del texto de Pali.
		Mientras que trajeron el magistrado de Galle un caso antes Rhys Davids que implicaba cuestiones de la ley eclesiástica, y de él primero vino a través de Pali cuando un documento en una lengua extraña fue tabulado como evidencia.
		Rhys Davids llegó a estar implicado con la excavación de la ciudad antigua Anuradhapura de Ceylonese, que había sido abandonada después de una invasión en 993.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/th/Thomas%20Guillermo%20Rhys%20Davids.htm (385 words)

	Welsh Abbeys
		But St David's legendary austerities - his hard manual labour, his vegetarian diet, his constant genuflexions and cold baths - were no longer regularly practised by the self-indulgent hereditary canons of the Welsh clas churches.
		It was Rhys ap Gruffydd (d.1197), prince of this rich and fertile kingdom, who restored native control to the the southwest.
		The Lord Rhys, as he is known, assumed the patronage of both Whitland and Strata Florida.
	www.castlewales.com /abbeys.html (1933 words)

	Libary Archive Collection - Rhys Davids family
		Thomas Rhys Davids was the son of Thomas William Davids, an ecclesiastical historian and pastor of Lion Walk Congregational Church, Colchester, Essex.
		Caroline Rhys Davids was the daughter of John Foley, vicar of Wadhurst, Sussex, and Caroline Elizabeth Foley (née Windham).
		Thomas Davids was born in Swansea, 11 September 1816.
	www.oriental.cam.ac.uk /archive/rhys.html (4258 words)

	India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas Munro: The Origins of the Colonial State and His Vision of Empire.
		Kinsley, David R. The Sword and the Flute: Kali and Krsna, Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology.
		Blanpied, William A. "The Astronomical Program of Raja Sawai Jai Singh II and Its Historical Context," Japanese Studies in the History of Science [Tokyo], No. 13, 1974, 87-126.
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	Amazon.com: Genesis of an Orientalist: Thomas William Rhys Davids in Sir Lanka: Books: Ananda Wickremeratne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rhys Davids' relationship to Sri Lankan Buddhism and Pali was broadly analogous to that of Maz Muller to India and Sanskrit.
		The author has used Davids to investigate the nature of Western attempts - with implied Eurocentric attitudes - to interpret characteristically Asian cultural and religious institutions.
		The book focuses on Buddhism and the attempts of Westerners in the second half of the 19th century to interpret what was at the time regarded as a comparatively unknown oriental faith.
	www.amazon.com /Genesis-Orientalist-Thomas-William-Davids/dp/0836408675 (740 words)

	Milinda Panha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The work has been translated in to English twice, once in 1890 by Thomas William Rhys Davids (reprinted by Dover Publications in 1963) and once in 1969 by Isaline Blew Horner (reprinted in 1990 by the PaliText Society).
		A new abridged edition of Rhys Davids' translation was was first published by Bhikku Pesala in 1990.
		Both Rhys Davids' original work and the abridged edition are now available electronically.
	www.therfcc.org /milinda-panha-126668.html (193 words)

	Materialien zum Neobuddhismus: Buddhismus in Großbritanien bis 1959
		Bhikkhu Unnanse Yatramulle lehrt nun Rhys Davids Pali.
		Wikremeratne, Ananda: The genesis of an orientalist : Thomas William Rhys Davids and Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
		In the same year as Rhys Davids' arrival in Colombo, the two main Christian denominations joined forces to challenge the Buddhist monks to debate the merits of their respective religions in public.
	www.payer.de /neobuddhismus/neobud05011.htm (15097 words)

	1843 - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
		29 januari - William McKinley, amerikansk president 1897-1901.
		6 februari - Frederic William Henry Myers, engelsk poet.
		12 maj - Thomas William Rhys Davids, brittisk indolog.
	sv.wikipedia.org /wiki/1843 (174 words)

	Davids, Thomas William Rhys biography - S9.com
		Davids became involved with the excavation of ancient Ceylonese city Anuradhapura.
		1922 - Thomas William Rhys Davids died on 27th of December.
		This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1897 edition by Williams and Norgate, London.
	www.s9.com /Biography/Davids-Thomas-William-Rhys (338 words)

	Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: Genesis of an Orientalist: Thomas William Rhys Davids in Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: Genesis of an Orientalist: Thomas William Rhys Davids in Sri Lanka
		Genesis of an Orientalist: Thomas William Rhys Davids in Sri Lanka
		Rhys Davids' relationship to Sri Lankan Buddhism and Pali was broadly analogous to that of Maz Muller to India and Sanskrit.
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	Encyclopedia: Rhys Davids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This aspect of Davids' career is the cause of considerable embarrassment today.
		Rhys Davids: His contribution to Pali and Buddhist studies part1
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rhys-Davids (552 words)

	Davids Thomas William Rhys - new and used books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Davids Thomas William Rhys - Buddhism : being a sketch of the life and teachings of Gautama, the Buddha.
		Davids, Thomas William Rhys - Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jataka tales).
		Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by some points in the history of Indian Buddhism.
	www.isbn.pl /A-Davids-Thomas-William-Rhys (1171 words)

	Amazon.com: Buddhism, Its History and Literature: Books: Thomas William Rhys Davids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		British scholar THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS DAVIDS (1843-1922) was an expert in the ancient Indian language Pali and served as professor of Pali at the University of London from 1882 to 1904.
		Buddhism: Its History and Literature by T. Rhys Davids in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
		History and Literature of Buddhism by T.W. Rhys Davids in Front Matter
	www.amazon.com /Buddhism-History-Literature-Thomas-William/dp/1402186398 (653 words)

	Pali-English Dictionary
		As the Pali Text Society began issuing editions and translations of the Pali Canon and Commentaries in quick succession, Rhys Davids conceived the idea of the compilation of an exhaustive dictionary of Pali, based on the voluminous basic material that was being brought to light.
		THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS DAVIDS (1843-1922) was the foremost and most active exponent of the study of Pali and Buddhism in England.
		He was the Founder-Chairman of the Pali Text Society (1881), through which, by the time he passed away at the age of 80, he had published most of the basic texts and commentaries in Pali Buddhism, in about 25,000 pages.
	www.buddhart.com /book/details/IDD476 (272 words)

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