Marilyn R. Brown
Ashgate
Hardback
240
2002
In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance of Buddhism in India?»s past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling?»s account and those of other western writers to offer new insight into the priorities underlying nineteenth-century studies of Buddhist art in India.
Ashgate
Hardback
240
2002
In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance of Buddhism in India?»s past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling?»s account and those of other western writers to offer new insight into the priorities underlying nineteenth-century studies of Buddhist art in India.