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Article: A Buddha for the blue states.(Book Review)
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- The Nation
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- February 21, 2005
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AN END TO SUFFERING: The Buddha in the World. By Pankaj Mishra. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 422 pp. $25.
Scholars of the New Testament speculate that the Gospel of Mark was the first of the canonical Gospels to be composed, sometime between 68 and 73 CE, or thirty-five to forty years after the Crucifixion. It was followed by Luke and Matthew, and then John, which was not composed until sometime between 90 and 110 CE. Jesus himself, of course, wrote nothing, so our understanding of his teachings relies on these rather belated accounts, from which Christians have drawn thousands of portraits of Jesus, both verbal and visual, portraits that are often in direct ...
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