Buddhism: A Journey through History

One of the world's leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day.

Over the course of 25 centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in northern India to become a global tradition of remarkable breadth, depth, and richness. In this ambitious book, Lopez draws on the latest scholarship to construct a detailed and innovative history of Buddhism. not just as a chronology through the centuries or as geographic movement across a map, but as a dense matrix of interconnections.