Buddhism : a short history
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Buddhism : a short history
Oneworld, 2000
Reissued
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [148]-150) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a straightforward and comprehensive survey of Buddhist history, from 500 BCE through to modern times. It introduces all the different doctrines, sects and beliefs, and follows their development over their centuries; it also covers all the different Buddhist schools. The expansion of Buddhism across the Asian continent is traced, and its development in India, Nepal and Kashmir, Ceylon, Central Asia, South-East Asia, Japan, China and Korea and Tibet is examined at length.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The First Five Hundred Years: 500-0 BC
2. The Second Period: AD 0-500
3. The Third Period: AD 500-1000
4. The Last One Thousand Years: AD 1000-1978
Bibliography
Index
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