Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids (1857–1942) was a Pāli language scholar and translator, and from 1922-1942 president of the Pali Text Society which was founded by her husband T.W. Rhys Davids whom she married in 1894. 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... For the town and district in Rajasthan, see Pali, Rajasthan For the Ganapati temple of pali and place in Maharastra, see Ballaleshwar Pali Pāli (Devanagari पालि) is a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... The Pali Text Society was founded in 1881 by T.W. Rhys Davids to foster and promote the study of Pali texts. Pali is the language in which the texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism is preserved. ... Thomas William Rhys Davids (May 12, 1843 - December 27, 1922) was an British scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pali Text Society. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Her translations of Pāli texts were at times idosyncratic but her contribution was considerable. She translated the Samyutta Nikaya, and the Therigatha and Theragatha of the Pali Canon, the Jataka or birth stories of the Buddha's previous lives, and wrote several popular books on the subject of Buddhism. Although earlier in her career she accepted more mainstream beliefs about Buddhist doctrine, later in life she rejected the concept of anattā as an "original" Buddhist teaching. The Samyutta Nikaya, the third Nikaya (division) of the Sutta Pitaka of the Tipitaka, contains 2,889 suttas grouped into five sections (vaggas). ... The Therigatha, often translated as Verses of the Elder Nuns (Pāli: thera elder (feminine) + gatha verse), is a collection of short poems supposedly recited by early members of the Buddhist sangha. ... The Theragatha, often translated as Verses of the Elder Monks (Pāli: thera elder (masculine) + gatha verse), is a collection of short poems supposedly recited by early members of the Buddhist sangha. ... Standard edition of the Thai Pali Canon The Pali Canon is one the earliest existing scripture collections of the Buddhist tradition. ... The Jataka stories are a significant body of works about the previous lives of Gautama Buddha. ... Standing Buddha, ancient region of Gandhara, northern Pakistan, 1st century CE, Musée Guimet. ... Buddhism (Pāli Buddhadhamma or Sanskrit Buddhadharma) is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, who lived in the 5th century BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following his death, and propagated into Central, Southeast, and... The Buddhist term Anātman (Sanskrit) or Anatta (Pali) is an adjective that specifies the absence of a supposedly permanent and unchanging self or soul in any one of the psycho-physical (namo-rupa) constituents of empirical existence; eg. ...

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. She became involved in spiritualism to a certain extent, attempting to communicate with her dead son through seances and automatic writing. Seal of the Theosophical Society Theosophy is a body of ideas which holds that all religions are attempts by man to ascertain the Divine, and as such each religion has a portion of the truth. ... For the town and district in Rajasthan, see Pali, Rajasthan For the Ganapati temple of pali and place in Maharastra, see Ballaleshwar Pali Pāli (Devanagari पालि) is a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. ... Spiritualism is a religious movement, prominent from the 1840s to the 1920s, found primarily in English-speaking countries. ... ... For an article about Surrealist automatic writing go to Surrealist automatism. ...

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 Philosopher (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a study that includes various diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. ... Suffrage parade, New York City, 1912 The movement for womens suffrage, led by suffragists (peaceful protestors) and suffragettes (violent protestors), was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather than universal...

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) (September 26, 1897 - October 27, 1917) was a pilot during the First World War. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

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• Mrs. Rhys Davids' Dialogue with Psychology (1893-1924) By Teresina Rowell Havens. Philosophy East & West. V. 14 (1964) pp. 51-58