That Impostor Known as the Buddha
Eliot Weinberger: Incarnations of the Buddha, 11 September 2014
From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha
by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Chicago, 289 pp., £18, April 2013,978 0 226 49320 6 Show More
by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Chicago, 289 pp., £18, April 2013,
In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint
by Donald S. Lopez Jr and Peggy McCracken.
Norton, 262 pp., £17.99, May 2014,978 0 393 08915 8 Show More
by Donald S. Lopez Jr and Peggy McCracken.
Norton, 262 pp., £17.99, May 2014,
“... falsehoods, half-truths and bizarre speculations. Although he was first mentioned in the West by St Clement of Alexandria in the third century, it was not until 1801, according to the OED, that the word ‘Buddha’ entered the English language, and some decades after that until the portrait we now consider standard emerged. Encountering the strange, the ... ”
