Adam Clarke and two former Buddhists

Adam Clarke and two former Buddhists
Adam Clarke and two former Buddhists
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1800-1850 / Ministers, Preachers & Associates / Oil on Canvas/Board / Painting / Portrait / World Parish
Oil on canvas
Painted by Alexander Mosses, 1820

Adam Clarke (1760 - 1832) is depicted in his library with two former Buddhist monks.

Arriving in England in May 1818, the two monks were met by Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke (1762-1832), an Irish Methodist and well known scholar on the New Testament. Clarke looked after the monks. In 1820, he wrote: ‘did so; and in doing it encountered many difficulties, which, because the good hand of my God was upon me, I surmounted; and, after twenty months instruction under my own roof, I was fully convinced that they were sincere converts to the Christian religion, and that their minds were under a very gracious influence. At their own earnest desire I admitted them into the church of Christ by baptism’.

Later in life, Adam Clarke would become a notable collector of Arabic, Persian and Syriac Manuscripts and he was the composer of the epitaph on John Wesley's tomb.