The Archive · 1927

APOLLO, BACCHUS AND

London, Oct. 13.

A claim that Indian and Chinese images of Buddha are evolved from forms of the Greek Gods, Apollo and: Bacchus, was propounded by the great German ethnologist, Herr von Lecoq, director of the Indian Section of the Berlin Museum of Ethnology, at a meeting of the School of! Oriental Studies of London Univer-airy here today.

Herr von Tecoq, who has headed Ahree expeditions into the deserts of Central Asia, claims that he has indubitably proved that India and! China borrowed the images of all the dlamsical Greek Gods, which they adapted to their own religions and

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