Comment Bouddha a découvert la Révolution Russe
How Buddha has discovered the Russian Revolution

Summary/Abstract: The novel "The Return of Buddha" (1923) by the Russian writer Vsévolod Ivanov or-chestrates an intertwining of opposing spiritual vectors: on the one hand, the regres-sion of the Mongolian Lama Dava-Dordji, oscillating between the mysterious calls of the East, which led him to bring back a Buddha statue in his country, and the calls of Europe, which made him escape to modern civilization and Bolshevik utopia; on the other hand, the progression of the Russian professor Safonov, who crosses the obsta-cles of science to regain serenity. This interchange of roles is supposed to reestablish the Buddhist equilibrium in a revolutionary universe, where the historical present de-vours the divine representation, while allowing itself to be reinterpreted in the light of the divine teachings.

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