Items

• V imenu Gospodovem (In the Name of the Lord)
  The translation consists of excerpts from a travelogue by Slovene Jesuit missionary Stanko Poderžaj, originally published serially in eleven installments of Katoliški misijoni, Ljubljana. The chosen passage concerns the author’s visit to the Kalighat temple in Calcutta.
• Jest buddhismus náboženství vhodné pro Evropana? (Is Buddhism a religion convenient for Europeans?)
  Translation of an article that provides the Czech scholar of religion Otakar Pertold’s response to the increasing popularity of Buddhism in Europe in the second half of the 19th century. This popularity led many Europeans to leave their countries and take refuge in the Three Gems in Buddhist monasteries across Asia, most commonly in contemporary Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Pertold bases his radical “no” to the question in the title on two grounds explained in the translated text.
• Here and There Across the East (Тамо амо по Истоку )
  The translation consists of parts of a travelogue by the Serbian doctor and academic Milan Jovanović Morski. After getting his degree in medicine in Leipzig in 1867, he travelled for some time as a cruise-ship doctor for the Austrian company “Lloyd” and wrote accounts of his visits to India, China, and other Asian countries.