Volume 50, Number 10 · June 12, 2003
The Way to the Middle Way
By Pankaj Mishra
The Search for the Buddha: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion
by Charles Allen
Carroll and Graf, 322 pp., $26.00
In 1922, when he was thirty-one years old, Osip Mandelstam published 'The Nineteenth Century,' an essay in which he deplored what he saw as widespread Buddhist influence on European culture then and called for a return to the robust intellectual rationality of the eighteenth-century French Encyclopedists.
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