Sketches of Voltaire aged 81, by Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, 1775.
Featured on PDR in the essay Voltaire and the Buddha
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. looks at Voltaire's early reflections on Buddhism and how, in his desire to separate the Buddha's teachings from the trappings of religion, the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West.
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Sketches of Voltaire Aged 81
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