The Thousand Buddhas

Sir Marc Aurel Stein, born on November 26, 1862, in Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is a name that stands prominent in the annals of Central Asian and Indological exploration and archaeology. Educated in the universities of Vienna, Leipzig, and Tübingen, Stein specialized in Oriental studies, a passion that would define his future career. Although of Hungarian Jewish descent, S...