The Washington Post, July 20th, 2003
THE SEARCH FOR THE BUDDHA The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion By Charles Allen Carroll & Graf. 322 pp. $26 Buddhism is regarded as one of the five great religions of the world and at the moment is flourishing in the West, where people practice it in various forms and where new magazines and books are springing up almost daily. So it is startling to hear, as Charles Allen tells us in this fascinating new book, that not only was Buddhism virtually unheard of in the West 200 years ago, it had also been obliterated in India, the country of its origin, where the Buddha lived and taught so...
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