Kanai Lal Hazra
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Theravad Buddhism exists in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Burma, Siam (Thailand), Cambodia and in Laos. This form of Buddhism is the tie that binds Ceylon with all these countries of South-east Asia. The present book tries to show that Ceylon had strong cultural links with her neighbours in South-east Asia. From the eleventh century on wards the Sihala Sangha and Sihala Buddhism constitute a strong and vitalizing force in the religious history of South-east Asia, and the ...
In this scholarly work the author discusses the significance of inscriptions and shows how they, as primary source material, play a major role in providing the factual underpinnings of the social, political, religious, cultural, and literary history of early India. This work provides an in-depth account, on the one hand, of the richness and variety of the information provided by them and; on the other, a description of the development of Buddhism in Asoka's time. ...
The annals and chronicles are Important for a study of political, religious, cultural and literary history of a country. This book Introduces to the readers for the first time a new picture in the field of annals and chronicles. It gives, not only, the history and the development of the Buddhist annals and chronicles of South-East Asia but it also refers to the important role played by the chronicles in the field of Pali and Singhalese literature in Ceylon. ...
The book presents a true picture of the Buddhist Sangha, its origin and its growth. It systematically examines various sources relating to the subject and demonstrates its usefulness in this study. It is an empirical study of the Buddhist Sangha and its Constitiution with the object of showing their importance in the Buddhist world. This book is and indispensable guide to understand the religion of the buddha. In this remarkable, brilliant and captivating book, ...
Ladakh, which is situated in the Himalayas on the borders of Tibet, Sinkiang and Kashmir, is a remote land. Until the beginning of the 19th century, the region was an independent kingdom, but in 1833 it was included as part of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. From the outside world the region was isolated for political and military reasons. In 1974, it was opened to international tourism. Buddhism, Islam and Christianity flourished in Ladakh. The author has ...
Based on extensive research, this book gives an account of Buddhism and Pali Literature of Myanmar. It is an Important Buddhist country of South East Asia and for centuries it has become the home of Buddhism. This work is a valuable contribution to the world of Buddhism and Buddhist literature and to the study of Myanmar’s religious history. The author in a thoughtful manner and in a scholarly way has brought this book before us and for this reason it will ...
From the time immemorial Himachal Pradesh has become well-known as “Dev Bhumi” or “the land of the Gods”. It has also become known as “ the Valley of the temples”. In those temples the Brahmanical, the Buddhists at the Vaishnava gods and goddesses were eushrimed and those were worshiped by the worshipers from a very long time. The people of Himanchal Pradesh are Hindus and they have a firm faith in the village cities. Every ...
The present work is a detailed study of multifarious origins of Northern Buddhist Gods and their importance in Northern Buddhist world. The work deals with the Adi-Buddha. The Dhyani Buddhas, the Dhyani Bodhisattvas and the Buddhas. In this work of assiduous scholarship, the author provides a comprehensive and indepth analysis of the subject. And all these make the book not only a treasure for research workers but also afford knowledgeable reading to the general ...
Buddhism, like other religions of the world , owed much of its expansion to the patronage of several rulers in India extended to the religion for its progress. The book gives for the first time a chronological account of the patronage of Buddhism in ancient India by kings and clans from the period of the Buddha’s ministration to that of the extinction of the Gupta dynasty. Being based on a close study of original sources, the book presents in detail a living ...
The book is a comprehensive study of different aspects of Thai political life, religion, art and literature with the emphasis on the role of Buddhism in influencing the Thai culture and way of life. Showing how Thailand has a unique blend of a glorious past traceable to very early times and remarkable modernisation attempts, it traces, under political history, the earliest dynasties of kings and their battles and wars to found empires and cities down to more ...
In Pali is preserved the Buddhist canon. Which, considered as “the most authentic form of Buddhavacanaâ€, constitutes the very matrix of its 2500-year-long Theravada tradition. A refined, widely-spoken language of the early Middle Indic (Indo-Aryan) stage: about bc 600-200, Pali has also left, for posterity, a splendid legacy of “secular†literature that captures contemporary socio-cultural milieus not only of India, but of Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka, ...
The two volumes present a comprehensive study of political, cultural and religious history of Indonesia. Of encyclopaedic significance, they take up a whole gamut of themes relating to history, politics, religion, literature, art and architecture, and sculpture of Indonesia. The first volume is on political history of Indonesia. It covers all dynasties/rulers of Indonesia — from the earliest Sailendras of Srivijaya to the political scene in current times ...
The book Buddhism in India as Described by the Chinese Pilgrims incorporates an exhaustive study of the lives and the works of Chinese pilgrims and their connection with the growth of Buddhism in India, during fifth to seventh centuries AD. The book has been divided into four sections in order to present a handy description of the different aspects of Buddhism as noted by the Chinese pilgrims during those centuries. In his endeavour to make the work more ...
The value of Asoka is greatly enhanced when we study and examine Asoka's life, his reign and the great role played by him to raise the moral standard of his subjects. He himself perceived and visioned several issues which can be collected from a study of his edicts. Based on extensive research, this book presents a comprehensive survey of the life of this great ruler. The author looks at the subject both historically and analytically. It is an important ...
Dr. Kanal Lal Hazra's new work-about 500 pages of hand-written manuscript -starts with Gautama Buddha's life. This book on Buddhism in India is important and interesting. It traces Gautama Buddha's life, his missionary activities and his important role for the propagation Buddhist sects in India, Buddhist literature, Buddhist education, rules and regulations of the Buddhist Samgha and decline of Buddhism in India. In this age of extremism and violence, the world ...
Numerous books have been written on Sri Lanka's Buddhism, but Buddhism in Sri Lanka is first of its kind. The author deserves praise for studying the various sources in South Asia on Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Buddhism in Sri Lanka by Dr. K.L. Hazra is one such book that will appeal to this readership. It may not help to make sales records but it will have a place among the reading public. This is a concise, yet comprehensive history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. It ...