Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India by Douglas Ober

Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India

South Asia in Motion

Douglas Ober

394 pages first pub 2023 (view editions)

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
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Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so t...

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