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Journeys On The Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, And The Unearthing Of The World's Oldest Printed Book (2011)

by Joyce Morgan(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0762782978 (ISBN13: 9780762782970)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Lyons Press

review 1: The story of Aurel Stein, an explorer and archaeologist, who in 1907 travelled to the sacred Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in western China where a hidden library that had been sealed for more than a thousand years had just been rediscovered. Amongst the manuscripts which Stein took from the hidden room was a wood block copy of the 'Diamond Sutra' - dated AD868, 500 years before Gutenberg's Bible. , the discovery has illuminated the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road. Stein’s personal story is as fascinating as the story of the ‘Diamond Sutra’.
review 2: 3.5 I am not very familiar with Buddhism, but my son recently went on a ten day Buddhist retreat, and no he is not becoming a Buddhist but he wanted to get deeper into the practice of meditation. So w... morehen I saw this book I thought it would provide me with some history and some interesting idioms of their practice. This journey made by Aurel Stein, was a major success, uncovering a library cave that was filled with scripts 10 ft. high. The cave and others were under the protection of a monk, so there was some smooth negotiating that had to happen. What he uncovered made history, but I won;t go into that here because it is stated in the synopsis.I found much of this book fascinating, what it took to prepare for the journey, the history of Buddhism which covered much I never knew. Never knew the extent of coverage this religion had at one time. The negotiating and taking these massive finds home, protecting them from the Nazi's and so much more. For the most past this was easy to read, but at times it bogged down in details that I did not really care about. All in all a good and astonishing book. less

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