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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

The Buddha and the Sahibs

The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion

by Charles Allen

A popular history of the British scholars, surveyors and archaeologists who deciphered Ashoka's inscriptions and identified the sites of the Buddha's life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It tells the story of the rediscovery of Indian Buddhism through its personalities.

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