“The Seeming Anomaly of Buddhist Negation”: American Encounters with Buddhist Distinctiveness, 1858–1877

In a lecture in Horticultural Hall in Boston on Sunday 3 March 1872 Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the social reformer and religious radical, praised “The Character of the Buddha.” He ended his very sympathetic portrait by alluding to King Asoka's discovery of the tomb of the Buddha. Those who ope...

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Main Author: Tweed, Thomas A. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1990
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1990, Volume: 83, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-92
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