2-704-385 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Burning the dead body of a Lama', c1802. Buddhist monks performing a cremation ritual. Engraving published in the "English Encyclopedia" published by George Kearsley. Its full title was: "The English Encyclopedia being a collection of treatises and a dictionary of terms illustrative of the arts and sciences compiled from modern authors of the first eminence in the different branches of science." [London, 1802]