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The Face of the Buddha

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

The Face of the Buddha

By William Empson, Partha Mitter

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About the book

Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that followed in search of similar examples all over Korea, China, Cambodia, Burma, India, and Ceylon, as well as in the great museums of the West. Compiling the results of these wide-ranging travels into what he considered to be one of his most important works, Empson was heartbroken when he mislaid the s...Show more

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9780199659678

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

The Face of the Buddha

Format

Hardcover

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