Ideas of Kingship in Hinduism and Buddhism

A Tapestry of Kings: Edited Volumes and the Growth of Knowledge in Religious Studies

“…Instead of a vague, potentially awesome religious paradox, we are left with a satisfied, if mundane, semantic understanding. 18 In its connected pieces the volume offers a panoramic vision that is reasonably clear and detailed but that suggests only the broadest of general comparative patterns. The essays themselves contain few crosscultural references, and Basham's introduction is brief and cursory, noting only a few structural similarities in kingship across the areas and describing historical links.…”