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| #867306 in Books | 2016-11-10 | 2016-11-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.62 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Daniel Schneider|Book well received in the right time and perfect conditions. Thank you!|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| What's in this anthology? Read here|By John L Murphy|Look around an Eastern-themed gift shop or Asian-inspired garden and you may see a benevolent, rotund and inevitably smili||
“This is an amazing repository of research on Western writings on Buddhism from the earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century. Beautifully written, Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol will be a sourcebook for further research among scholars
We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred years, including Clement of Alexandria, Marco Polo, St. Francis Xavier, ...
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