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The World of Buddhism: Buddhist monks and nuns in society and culture

by  Heinz Bechert / Richard Francis Gombrich

Table Of Contents

  • Foreword Heinz Bechert
  • Richard Gombrich
  • Etienne Lamotte
  • Richard Gombrich, Etienne Lamotte, Lal Mani Joshi
  • Oskar Von Hinuber
  • Siegried Lienhard
  • Michael B. Carrithers
  • Heinz Bechert
  • Jane Bunnag
  • Erik Zurcher
  • Roert K. Heinemann
  • Per Kvaerne
  • Heinz Bechert
  • Richard Gombrich
  • Heinz Bechert
  • Introduction: the Buddhist way The path to enlightenment
  • The Buddha, his teachings and his sangha The Indian tradition
  • Buddhism in ancient india Expansion to the North: Afghanistan and central asia Nepal: the survival of Indian Buddhism in a Himalayan kingdom Theravada buddhism
  • ’They will be lords upon the island’: Buddhism in Sri Lanka ’To be a bermese is to be a buddhist’: Buddhism in Burma The way of the monk and the way of the world: Buddhism in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia Buddhism in East Asia
  • ’Beyond the jade gate’: Buddhism in China, Vietnam and Korea This world and the other power: contrasting paths to deliverance in Japan Tibetsn Buddhism
  • Tibet: the rise and fall of a monastic tradition Buddhism in the Modern world
  • Buddhist revival in East and West Glossary Select bibliography Sources of illustrations
  • Index

Subject

Buddhism

Details

Published New York : Thames and Hudson, [1998],
Language English
Material 308 p.
ISBN 0500276285 / 9780500276280
Location
BQ 4012 W9271 1998 C.1
TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack2

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