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Now 2,500 Years Old, Buddhism Has 300 Million Followers Worldwide And Between Two And Three Million Adherents In The United States. Yet, Until The Late Eighteenth Century When Sir William Oriental Jones - A British Judge In India - Broke The Brahmins' Prohibition On Learning The Sacred Language Of Sanskrit, The Buddha's Teachings Were Treasures Unappreciated By Westerners. Jones, Who Began To Uncover Clues About Buddhism's Origins From Inscriptions On Pillars And Rocks, Became The First Of An Enthusiastic, And Often Eccentric Band Whose Search For The Indian Subcontinent's Secret Religion Is Chronicled In This Book Of Monumental Historical Detection Infused With The Air Of High Adventure.--book Jacket. Prologue: The Orientalists -- The Botanising Surgeon -- Tales From The East -- Oriental Jones And The Asiatic Society -- Jones And The Language Of The Gods -- Dr. Buchanan And The Messengers Form Ava -- Three Englishmen An A Hungarian -- Tigers, Topes, And Rock-cut Temples -- James Prinsep The Scientific Enquirer -- Triumph And Disaster -- Prinsep And The Beloved Of The Gods -- Alexander Cunningham And The Chinese Pilgrims -- Cunningham And The Archaeological Survey -- The Welshman,

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Author

Allen, Charles, 1940-

Publisher

Carroll & Graf Publishers : Distributed by Publishers Group West

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786711970

Category

history

Subjects

Religion, Buddhism, Fiction

Rating

4.06 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14