buddhist literature

An anthology of Buddhist literature written between A.D. 100 and 400, drawing from numerous traditional schools to present the central message of the religion.

Discusses the journey of Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archeologist employed by the British service, ashe traveled the Silk Road in the early twentieth century to find the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest printed book.

A Western student in China in the 1970s is drawn to the greengrocer Tumchooq and his stories, but when he disappears, the young woman, now pregnant with Tumchooq's child, goes in search of answers about his tale of a missing silk scroll said to be inscribed with a lost sutra composed by the Buddha.