Indian Buddhism
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Indian Buddhism
Motilal Banarsidass, 2000
3rd rev. ed.
- : cloth
- : paper
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Includes prefaces of first-third edition
Bibliography: p. [493]-538
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: cloth ISBN 9788120808188
Description
This book describes the Buddhism of India on the basis of the comparison of all the available original sources in various languages. It is divided into three parts. The first is a reconstruction of original Buddhism presupposed by the traditions of the different schools known to us. It uses primarily the established methods of textual criticism, drawing out of the oldest extant texts of the different schools their common kernel. The second part traces the development of the Eighteen Schools of early buddhism, showing how they elaborated their doctrines out of the common kernel.
Table of Contents
- Indian civilization before the Buddha
- India in the time of the Buddha
- the life of the Buddha
- the doctrine of the Buddha
- causation
- Buddhism and society
- collecting the Tripitaka
- the popularization of Buddhism
- the eighteen schools
- Mahayana and Madhyamaka
- idealism and the theory of knowledge
- the great universities and the Mantrayana. (Part contents).
- Volume
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: paper ISBN 9788120817418
Description
This volume describes the Buddhism of India on the basis of the comparison of all the available sources in various languages. It falls into three approximately equal parts. The first is a reconstruction of the original Buddhism presupposed by the traditions of the different schools known to us. It uses primarily the established methods of textual criticism, drawing out of the oldest extant texts of the different schools their common kernel. This kernel of doctrine is presumably common Buddhism of the period before the great schisms of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. It may be substantially the Buddhism of the Buddha himself, though this cannot be proved: at any rate it is a Buddhism presupposed by the schools as existing about a 100 years after the Parinirvana of the Buddha, and there is no evidence to suggest that it was formulated by anyone other than the Buddha and his immediate followers. The second part traces the development of the "Eighteen Schools" of early Buddhism, showing how they elaborated their doctrines out of the common kernel.
Here we can see to what extent the Sthaviravada, or "Theravada" of the Pali tradition, among others, added to or modified the original doctrine. The third part describes the Mahayana movement and the Mantrayana, the way of the bodhisattva and the way of ritual. The relationship of the Mahayana to the early schools is traced in detail, with its probable affiliation to one of them, the Purva Saila, as suggested by the consensus of the evidence. Particular attention is paid in this book to the social teaching of Buddhism, the part that relates to the "world" rather than to nirvana and which has been generally neglected in modern writings on Buddhism.
Table of Contents
- Indian civilization before the Buddha
- India in the time of the Buddha
- the life of the Buddha
- the doctrine of the Buddha
- causation
- Buddhism and society
- collecting the Tripitaka
- the popularization of Buddhism
- the eighteen schools
- Mahayana and Madhyamaka
- idealism and the theory of knowledge
- the great universities and the Mantrayana. (Part contents).
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