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All is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West

by Lawrence Sutin · 2006

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In the tradition of Karen Armstrong, Jack Miles, andThomas Cahill comes a magisterial history of the coming of Buddhism tothe West.

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adult
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long · 416 pages

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