Buddhism: A Journey Through History

One of the world's leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe



Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in northern India to become a global tradition of remarkable breadth, depth, and richness. Donald S. Lopez Jr. draws on the latest scholarship to construct a detailed and innovative history of Buddhism-not just as a chronology through the centuries or as geographic movement, but as a dense matrix of int...