Background
Monier Monier-Williams was born on November 12, 1819, in Mumbai, British India, the third of the four sons of Colonel Monier Williams, surveyor-general, and of his wife, Hannah Sophia.
(It is forgotten that mere sympathizers with Buddhism, who...)
It is forgotten that mere sympathizers with Buddhism, who occasionally conform to Buddhistic practices, are not true Buddhists. In China the great majority are first of all Confucianists and then either T?oists or Buddhists or both. In Japan Confucianism and Shintoism co-exist with Buddhism. In some other Buddhist countries a kind of Shamanism is practically dominant. The best authorities (including the Oxford Professor of Chinese, as stated in the Introduction to his excellent work The Travels of F?-hien) are of opinion that there are not more than 100 millions of real Buddhists in the world, and that Christianity with its 430 to 450 millions of adherents has now the numerical preponderance over all other religions. I am entirely of the same opinion. I hold that the Buddhism, described in the following pages, contained within itself, from the earliest times, the germs of disease, decay, and death, and that its present condition is one of rapidly increasing disintegration and decline.
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Monier Monier-Williams was born on November 12, 1819, in Mumbai, British India, the third of the four sons of Colonel Monier Williams, surveyor-general, and of his wife, Hannah Sophia.
Monier-Williams came to England in 1822, where he was educated at private schools at Chelsea and Brighton, and afterwards at King's College School, London. He matriculated at Oxford in March 1837, but did not go into residence at Balliol College till Michaelmas 1838. In the following year he rowed in his college eight at the head of the river. Having received a nomination to a writer-ship in the East India Company's civil service in November 1839, he passed his examination at the East India House in December. He then left Oxford and went into residence at the East India Company's college, Haileybury, in January 1840, whence he passed out head of his year. He then entered upon the study of Sanskrit under Professor Horace Hayman Wilson and gained the Boden scholarship in 1843.
Graduating B. A. in the following year, he was appointed to the professorship of Sanskrit, Persian, and Hindustani, at Haileybury. This office he held for about fifteen years, till the college was closed after the Indian mutiny in 1858, and the teaching staff was pensioned off. After spending two or three years at Cheltenham, where he held an appointment at the college, he was elected Boden professor of Sanskrit in the university of Oxford by convocation in December 1860.
In the early seventies Monier Williams conceived the plan of founding at Oxford an institution which should be a focus for the concentration and dissemination of correct information about Indian literature and culture. This project he first brought before congregation at Oxford in May 1875. With a view to enlisting the sympathies of the; leading native princes in his scheme, he undertook three journeys to India in 1875, 1876, and 1883; and his persevering efforts were so far crowned with success. By rare tenacity of purpose he succeeded in overcoming all the great difficulties in his way, and the Indian Institute at last became an accomplished fact. The foundation-stone was laid by the Prince of Wales in 1883. The building was erected in three instalments, the first being finished in 1884, and the last in 1896, when the institute was formally opened by Lord George Hamilton, the secretary of state for India. Monier Williams subsequently presented to the library of the institute a valuable collection of oriental manuscripts and books to the number of about three thousand.
Monier Williams was a fellow of Balliol College from 1882 to 1888; was elected an honorary fellow of University College in 1892, and was keeper and perpetual curator of the Indian Institute. He received the honorary degree of D. C. L. from Oxford in 1875, of LL. D. from Calcutta, and of Ph. D. from Göttingen. He was created a K. C. I. E. in 1887, when he assumed the additional surname of Monier.
Failing health obliged Sir Monier to relinquish in 1887 his active professorial duties, which had become very onerous owing to the institution of the honour school of oriental studies at Oxford in 1886. He ceased to reside in the university, spending the winter months of every year in the south of France. The last years of his life he devoted chiefly to the completion of the second edition of his "Sanskrit-English Dictionary. " He gave the final touches to the last proof-sheet of this work only a few days before his death. Monier Monier-Williams died on April 11, 1899, at Cannes.
Monier Monier-Williams was the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England, who studied, documented and taught Asian languages.
Monier-Williams was knighted in 1876, and was made KCIE in 1887.
Monier Monier-Williams was a fellow of Balliol College from 1882 to 1888.
He was elected an honorary fellow of University College in 1892.
(It is forgotten that mere sympathizers with Buddhism, who...)
(A Sanskrit English Dictionary Etymologically and Philolog...)
Monier Monier-Williams was a fellow of Balliol College from 1882 to 1888. Monier-Williams became an honorary fellow of University College in 1892.
In 1848, Monier Monier-Williams married Julia, daughter of the Rev. F. J. Faithfull, rector of Hatfield, and had by her a family of six sons and one daughter.
