The history of Buddhism dates back to the year 580 BC with the teachings of Buddha Siddhartha Gautama forming thebasis of the Buddhist worldview and practice. Over the last 25 centuries, it has become
A legendary pioneer scholar of Asian studies, Alexander von Stael-Holstein (1877-1937) was a German-Baltic aristocratand an emigre of Czarist Russia displaced by the Bolshevik Revolution. He took up a