In the Forest of the Blind Conservatism/right-of-centre democratic ideologies Every so often

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In the Forest of the Blind Conservatism/right-of-centre democratic ideologies Every so oftenThe Record of Buddhist Kingdoms is a classic travelogue that records the Chinese monk Faxian's journey in the early fifth century CE to Buddhist sites in Central and South Asia in search of sacred texts. In the nineteenth century, it traveled west to France, becoming in translation the first scholarly book about "Buddhist Asia," a recent invention of Europe. This text fascinated European academic Orientalists and was avidly studied by Hegel,