Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern ColomboFirst Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Gotama Buddhas problem situation | 24 |
3 The Buddhas Dhamma | 45 |
4 The Sanghas discipline | 65 |
5 The accommodation between Buddhism and society in ancient India | 87 |
6 The Buddhist tradition in Sri Lanka | 101 |
7 Protestant Buddhism | 127 |
8 Current trends new problems | 146 |
| 155 | |
Abbreviations and primary sources | 159 |
References | 161 |
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accept ancient Anuradhapura ascetic Asoka Bāhu Bechert brahmins Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist monks Burma called Canon Carrithers caste century BCE ceremony Ceylon chapter Christian chronicles claim Colombo commentaries communal religion culture death Dhamma Dharmapāla doctrine early Enlightenment ethical evidence formal gods Gombrich Gotama Hindu Hinduism important India individual inscriptions Jain Jainism kamma karman katriya king laity language layman living Mahā Mahāva Mahāyāna Mahinda means meditation missionaries modern monastery monastic monks moral nibbāna Nikāya novice nuns one’s ordination tradition Pali Pali Canon Parakkama Parinibbāna pātimokkha practice preached priests probably problem Protestant Buddhism Rahula rebirth relics religious renouncers ritual rule sacrifice salvation Sangha Sanskrit Sāsana scriptures sects seems sermon Sinhala Sinhalese Sinhalese Buddhist social society soteriology Sri Lanka śruti Sutta Tamil teaching term texts theory Theravāda Theravāda Buddhism Theravādin Theravādin tradition translated Upani ads uposatha Veda Vedic Vesāli Vihāra village Vinaya Wijayaratna word