In Search of the Christian Buddha – How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint - Hardcover

Lopez, Donald S.; Mccracken, Peggy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393089150 ISBN 13: 9780393089158

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

In Search of the Christian Buddha

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A rich exploration. "

A wealth of valuable information. --Leo Lefebure"

The noble prince who would be a sage or a saint. The fierce king who opposes him. The wise teacher who counsels him. The deceitful temptress who entices him. The trials he must endure. The prize he will win. A story with all these archetypal elements might well travel the world, and the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama leaving home to seek enlightenment as the Buddha did indeed travel the world, changing its doctrinal clothing as it crossed religious borders along the path from India to Europe, where it became the pious Christian tale of Barlaam and Josaphat. How it made that journey is a tale of multiple cultural and linguistic translations. How, in the nineteenth century, scholars retraced its steps is an even more fascinating tale of multiple decipherments. A literary detective story of the first order, in which Donald S. Lopez Jr. and Peggy McCracken recapture the color and excitement of every breakthrough along the way. --Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography"

About the Author:

Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Ph.D. University of Virginia) is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. His works include Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra, Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism, Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, The Story of Buddhism, The Madman's Middle Way, The Scientific Buddha, From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (with Robert Buswell), and In Search of the Christian Buddha (with Peggy McCracken, published by Norton). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute. In 2000 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Peggy McCracken, the translator of Gui de Cambrai's Barlaam and Josaphat, is a professor of French at the University of Michigan.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393089150
• ISBN 13: 9780393089158
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272