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Search for the Buddha; The Men Who Discovered India’s Lost Religion
By: Charles Allen

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Author: Charles Allen
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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 the sacred language of Sanskrit, the Buddha's teachings were treasures unappreciated in the West. Uncovering clues about Buddhism's origins from inscriptions on pillars and rocks, Jones pioneered an enthusiastic band whose search for the Indian subcontinent's secret religion is chronicled in this book of high adventure and monumental historical detection. Acclaimed narrative historian Charles Allen brings to life extraordinary eighteenth- and nineteenth-century characters and travels to lost holy places across the Eastern world as he tells the story of how Westerners found the Buddha. Allen has recorded the Western birth of a religion whose influence in America has increased tenfold in the just the past forty years.

The Search for the Buddha; The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion, Charles Allen, Avalon, Hardcover, 2002/2003, 322 Pages, $26.00

Illustrations ix

Map xi

Prologue: The Orientalists 1

The Botanising Surgeon 8

Tales from the East 22

Oriental Jones and the Asiatic Society 42

Jones and the Language of the Gods 58

Dr Buchanan and the Messengers from Ava 75

Three Englishmen and a Hungarian 102

Tigers, Topes and Rock-Cut Temples 117

James Prinsep the Scientific Enquirer 140

Triumph and Disaster 157

Prinsep and the Beloved of the Gods 177

Alexander Cunningham and the Chinese Pilgrims 200

Cunningham and the Archaeological Survey 218

The Welshman, the Russian Spiritualist, the American Civil War Colonel and the Editor of the Daily Telegraph 239

The Search for Buddha's Birthplace 256

Epilogue: The Sacredness of India 280

Acknowledgements 295

Glossary 297

Bibliography 303

Index 309

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