Studies in the Buddhistic Culture of India During the 7th and 8th Centuries A.D.It is a pioneer attempt of its kind to study Indian Buddhism in its entirety as a system of rational philosophy, profound faith, and as a historical matrix of creative human culture and civilized institution during the 7th and 8th centuries the brilliant epoch of the University of Nalanda, the mere name of which spells the great wonder that was Buddhism in Ancient India.A chapter on the contribution of Buddhism to Indian Civilization has also been added. The treatment of the subject is critical and integral though not traditional. |
Contents
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Buddhist Art in the Monasteries | 46 |
Monastic Life and Discipline | 65 |
Ethical and Spiritual Culture | 91 |
Buddhist Education and its Centres | 121 |
Buddhist Learning and Literature | 142 |
Buddhist Philosophy and Dialectics | 170 |
Kumārila and Samkara on Buddhism | 208 |
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