The Search for the Buddha: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion by Charles Allen
The Search for the Buddha: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion
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Charles Allen
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The Search for the Buddha: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion

Charles Allen

322 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative fast-paced
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Buddhism is now 2,500 years old and has about 300 million followers worldwide and almost 3 million adherents in the United States. Yet, until the late eighteenth century when Sir William "Oriental" Jones broke the Brahmins' prohibition on learning...

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