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... Buddhism . And the degenerating Greek art unites with the Mahayana to produce a distinctively new and intensely creative civilization : the Mahayanian Buddhist civilization which has travelled north - eastward across Asia to become the ...
... Buddhism . And the degenerating Greek art unites with the Mahayana to produce a distinctively new and intensely creative civilization : the Mahayanian Buddhist civilization which has travelled north - eastward across Asia to become the ...
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... Buddhism which prevails in the Far East . All four are , historically , products of the encounter between the Graeco - Roman civilization and its contemporaries . Christianity and Islam arose as alternative responses of the Syrian world ...
... Buddhism which prevails in the Far East . All four are , historically , products of the encounter between the Graeco - Roman civilization and its contemporaries . Christianity and Islam arose as alternative responses of the Syrian world ...
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... Buddhism , but it is also implicit in the Mahayana , however reluctant the followers of the Maha- yana school may be ... Buddhist who has not had quite the full courage of his convictions . As for the Epicurean , he re- gards this ...
... Buddhism , but it is also implicit in the Mahayana , however reluctant the followers of the Maha- yana school may be ... Buddhist who has not had quite the full courage of his convictions . As for the Epicurean , he re- gards this ...
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CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL Acknowledgments | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
My View of History | 15 |
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