• Figures

o 1. Inscriptions, Jesuit residence and church in Zhaoqing, 1584

o 2. Vishnu recovers the Veda from the sea

o 3. Schematic view of Ziegenbalg's classification of religions

o 4. Relics of Saint Josaphat (St. Andrieskerk, Antwerp)

o 5. Kircher's Indo-Japanese divinities

o 6. The earth formation cycle of Burnet (1684)

o 7. Diagram of Engelbert Kaempfer's view of Asian religions

o 8. De Guignes's hieroglyphs and Chinese characters

o 9. Stemma of major Forty-Two Sections Sutra editions

o 10. Bodhidharma crossing the sea on a reed

o 11. Adam's skull underneath the cross

o 12. Newton's map of Solomon's temple

o 13. Yijing trigram charts by Premare

o 14. Paradise near India on Osma world map

o 15. Chapter themes of Holwell's Shastah translation

o 16. Holwell's Shastah in review and published versions

o 17. Genesis of Holwell's Chartah Bhade Shastah of Bramah

o 18. Christianity's transmission line in Eusebius of Caesarea

o 19. Stages of Ezour-vedam creation and dissemination

o 20. Handwriting samples of Deshauterayes