Buddhism : a short history
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Buddhism : a short history
Oneworld, 2000
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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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