The Gods of Northern Buddhism: Their History, Iconography and Progressive Evolution Through the Northern Buddhist Countries [Hardcover]

Alice Getty (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing; 2nd Revised edition edition (January 1, 1962)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804811296
• ISBN-13: 978-0804811293
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,656,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Most Authoritative, July 14, 2001

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This review is from: The Gods of Northern Buddhism: Their History and Iconography (Paperback)

This book's no-nonsense approach and impeccable research puts it in a category of its own. Getty's mistake was using her first name, identifying the author as a woman, and thus pre-condemning the book in many an eye simply because a man didn't write it. She expresses herself elegantly, with no sloppy sentimentality. You get the true facts behind early Buddhist idolatry. For example, Getty's explains how, during the first two centuries after Buddha's PariNirnana, the only images of the Tathagata were of an empty chair.