THE LIFE

of

BUDDHA

According to the Legends of Ancient India

By

A. FERDINAND HEROLD

Translated from the French by

PAUL C. BLUM

Decorations by Mac Hershberger

Original Title: La Vie du Bouddha, by André Ferdinand Hérold, Paris, Édition d’Art, H. Piazza [1922], Translation by Paul C. Bloom, New York, A. & C. Boni, [1927]. The copyright on the translation was not renewed.

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, March 2007 by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because the original book it was translated prior to 1923, and the copyright on the translation was not renewed in a timely fashion as required by law at the time.