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A journey with the Buddha – across pan-Asian countries and 27 centuries since the Buddha’s appearance – has been an exciting fact-finding mission: both assimilative and analytical in approach. The book tries to find answers to several questions from the modern man’s context. The answers received in the quest reveal an amazing ‘gestalt’ of Buddhism, namely, a reality where the sum of individual parts is more than the whole! With propagation and absorption of Buddhism over space and time, the ‘gestaltic’ perception begins right in the beginning. Architecture and sculpture got a boost. The wealth of Pali language and literature was adopted as national heritage in the entire south Asia. Exquisitely-sculpted images from Afghanistan, Gandhara and Mathura spread everywhere. Above all, the civilisation impact -- from Sri Lanka, Myanmar and south Asian peninsula up to China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia in north – is unbelievably invigorating and life-sustaining. Such a global ‘gestalt’, arising from the spread-eagling of a single religion, has seldom been witnessed or shall be seen again…
ISBN - 8182902231
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Pages : 473
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