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The volume examines different aspects of Buddhism in India, describing the sects of Buddhism such as Vajrayana and Tantric Buddhism and the use of Sanskrit by Buddhist scholars to present their texts in India. It views the nature of the contribution of scholars and philosophers to Buddhism in the past, including Nagarjuna of the Madhyamika school, Ashvaghosa and the Buddhist social order, and works of Asanga. It delves into some basic concepts of Buddhism for ...
The following pages contain fifteen essays originally written on various themes of Indological interest – Indology, literature, philosophy and Buddhist and Jaina studies and presented before national and international gathering of scholars during the past three decades. These papers delineate some essential features of Indian culture enshrined in our ancient texts. The first papers entitles ‘Indology in the next Millennium’ was presented at an ‘Asiatic ...