Killing the Buddha
Subtitle: A Heretic's Bible
Publisher: Free Press
Published: January 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780743232760
Subjects: General; Religion; Comparative Religion; Alternate Spirituality; Spirituality - General; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Buddhism; Religion / General; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - General; Controversial literature
First sentence: LATE morning, just before lunch, one of Lin Chi's monks comes up to him half-crazed, out of his mind with ecstasy, babbling about Buddha.