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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Fragments of the Tocharian

How did Buddha get from India to China? And what does a 97-year-old translator in Beijing have to do with it?
Andrew Leonard

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  • Wednesday, January 30, 2008 08:24 AM

    Emerging history...

    Very interesting article and I will look with interest as more information emerges from this immensely interesting period of our early history. The process of recording history has long been subject to concerns for faith & politics more than objectivity and so much remains to be scraped clean of the patina of propaganda long carried on the surface. Fortunately some objective data remains beneath and here is where the true story will amaze and astonish us even today.

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