The Buddha from Babylon
Subtitle: the lost history and cosmic vision of Siddhartha Gautama
By: Harvey Kraft
Publisher: SelectBooks, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9781590791431
Subjects: Ancient Cosmology
Description: "Presents an alternative biography to the traditional recounting of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, and shows Babylonian influences on his cosmology. Author proposes that before his Enlightenment in the Indus forests, Buddha was a renowned visionary and philosopher in ancient Babylon, becoming briefly the Emperor of the Persian Empire before a coup by Darius the Great"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.