The Sociology of Early Buddhism Hardback - Hardcover

Bailey; Mabbett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521831164 ISBN 13: 9780521831161

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Early Buddhism flourished because it took up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions in the newly emergent Indian states from the fifth century BCE. This book begins with the apparent inconsistency of Buddhism, a renunciant movement surviving within a strong urban environment, and draws out the implications of this.

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Críticas:

'It is a scholarly and objective study, despite the fact that it tends to underrate other opinions.' Expository Times

'This is a substantial work of scholarship, closely written, a mass of facts and arguments, with an impressive bibliography. It is certainly a useful compilation.' Bulletin of the SOAS

Biografía del autor:

Greg Bailey has been teaching Sanskrit, Indian religions and Indian Literature at La Trobe University for the past twenty-four years. He has a PhD in Indian Studies from Melbourne University (1980). In the semester 1998 he was a visiting research fellow in the Seminar for Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Tübingen. He is a member of the International Consultative Committee of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies and a member of the Board of the Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521831164
• ISBN 13: 9780521831161
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296