The reader will find in these pages a profound and far-reaching analysis of the ideas, religious aspirations and building techniques which contributed to the creation of one of the largest Buddhist edifices in the world. This book is not a history of the famous Javanese monument nor is it a history of Buddhism. It is the English translation of the foreword to a Work : Loosely focussed on the Barabudur : which was published at Hanoi in French in 1935. Its author, ...