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Table of Contents:
• Preface • Introductory : Toward a New History of Buddhism/A.K. Narain 1. Motivations to Social Action in Theravada Buddhism : Uses and Misuses of Traditional Doctrines/Harvey B. Aronson 2. The Background to the Rise of Buddhism/A.L. Basham 3. The Structure of the Sangha in Burma : A Comparative View/Heinz Bechert 4. Theravada Buddhism and the Aims of Buddhist Studies/G.D. Bond 5. Early Buddhism and the Brahmanas/Balkrishna Govind Gokhale 6. The Disappearance of Buddhism and The Survival of Jainism : A Study in Contrast/Padmanabh S. Jaini 7. The Rise and Fall of Buddhism in Inner Mongolia/Sechin Jagchid 8. Shingon Mikkyo Buddhism : Its Concept of Tathata and Problematics Concerning Dharmakaya Mahavairocana/Minoru Kiyota 9. The Writing of Buddhist History in the Sherpa Area of Nepal/Alexander W. Macdonald 10. Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Indian Buddhism/Joanna Rogers Macy and Eleanor Zellioi 11. Views of Women's Roles in Buddhist Tibet/Beatrice D. Miller 12. Tracking Levy-Strauss along the Eight-fold Path : The Message of the Mahavamsa/Robert J. Miller 13. The Architectural Tradition in Buddhist Monasticism/Gadjin Nagao 14. Portraits of the Feminine : Buddhist and Confucian Historical Perspectives/Diana Paul 15. Vinaya and Pratimoksa : The Foundation of Buddhist Ethics/Charles S. Prebish 16. Buddhism in Ancient and Early Medieval Nepal/Theodore Riccardi, Jr 17. Four Great Thinkers in the History of Modern Chinese Buddhism/Bhiksu Chang Sheng-Yen 18. Polonnaruva as a Ceremonial Complex : Sinhalese Cultural Identity and the Dilemmas of Pluralism/Bardwell L. Smith 19. The Interaction of Jainism and Buddhism and its Impact on the History of Buddhist Monasticism/N. Tatia 20. Shin Buddhism in Modern Japan : An Examination of the Thought of Manshi Kiyozawa/Shunsho Terakawa 21. Voidnesses and Totalities : Madhyamika and Hua Yen/Robert A.F. Thurman 22. The Impact of the Bhakti Movement on the Development of Maha-yana Buddhism/K.N. Upadhyaya 23. Observations on the History and Influence of the Buddhist Tantra in India and Tibet/Alex Wayman 24. Some Political Factors in the Early History of Tibetan Buddhism/Turrell V. Wylie 25. Premises and Implications of 'Interdependence' (Pratityasamutpada)/Isshi Yamada 26. Buddhism in a Pre-Modern Bureaucratic Empire : The Chinese Experience/E. Zurcher 27. On Bhaisajyaguru and His Cult/Leonard Zwilling


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788190638890
  • Publisher: Buddhist World Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Buddhist World Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 8190638890
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2010
  • Binding: Hardback


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