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Soon after his marriage to Camilla née Nordmann from Vienna, Neumann went to Halle and in 1891 finished his thesis on a Pali text.

In the same year he published Zwei buddhistische Suttas und ein Traktat Meister Eckharts (" Two Buddhist Suttas and a treatise of Meister Eckhart ").

In 1892, after returning to Vienna, Neumann published an anthology of texts from the Pali Canon in German on the occasion of Schopenhauer ’ s 104th birthday.

Having finished a translation of the Dhammapada in 1893, Neumann realized his great desire to visit the original countries of Buddhism.

For a few months he traveled through India and Ceylon, meeting members of the sangha, such as the monk Sumangala Maha Thera and Lama Dondamdup.

Besides praise for the knowledge and learning of monks, he also found critical words for what he considered an adulteration and watering down of the original teaching of the Buddha.

Back in Vienna in 1894 he took up a post at the Oriental Institute as an assistant to the indologist Georg Bühler.