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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

The British Discovery of Buddhism

by Philip C. Almond

A study of how Victorian Britain constructed an idea of 'Buddhism' from texts and colonial encounters. Almond shows how the religion was located in an idealised textual past.

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