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,
“... turned into a book-length study, In Search of the Christian Buddha, written with the medievalist Peggy McCracken. It’s one of the odder stories in literary and religious history; as the book’s subtitle puts it: ‘How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint’. The biography of the Buddha, formalised centuries after his death, is well known. At the ... ”
