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This extraordinary book is the only authentic document of its kind. Beginning with a detailed and lucid exposition of the political background of India from Ajatasatru to Mahapadma Nanda, it goes on to trace the sources of the Second Buddhist Council, to locate with unerring exactitude the disruptive forces in the Sangha and, in the fourth chapter, to classify the Sects. In the chapters that follow, the learned author deals with the Mahasanghikas, doctrines of ...
This extraordinary book is the only authentic document of its kind. Beginning with a detailed and lucid exposition of the political background of India from Ajatasatru to Mahapadma nanda, it goes on to trace the sources of the Second Buddhist Council, to locate with unerring exactitude the disruptive forces in the Sangha and, in the fourth chapter, to classify the Sects. In the chapters that follow, the learned author deals with the Mahasanghikas, doctrines of ...
This work analyses the forces that helped in the propagation of Buddhism in India, and delineates the missionary activities of Buddha in detail. There are scholarly biographies of the great teacher touching incidentally on topics connected with his missionary activities. Such sketches, details of which have been laboriously collected from the Buddhist scriptures and arranged in such a way so as to enable one to see the details about Buddhaís career in ...
The book Mahayana Buddhism is an excellent piece of outstanding work of Dr. Nalinaksha Dutta consisting of detailed and dependable account of various historical events relating to the growth and development of philosophy and doctrines of Buddhism in general and Mahayana in particular propagated and flourished in India and abroad from the reign at the Great Buddhist king Ashoka and upto the 12th century. The comparison of important and essential aspects of ...
The Present Edition of the Pancavims at is ahasrika Prajna paramita is based upon four Mss, two of which belongs to the Cambridge University Library. One to the bibliotheque Nationale de Paris and one to the Asiatic soceity of Bengal. The Present Text is a rearranged version of the original, From the concluding line of every chapter, viz, Aryapancavims at is ahasrikayam Bhagavatyam Prajnaparamitayam Abhisamayalanka ranusarena Samshidhitayam. It is evident that ...
Mr. Dutt's work is a compendium where all information connected with the progress of Buddha's work is available in a well ordered form. Such a work, the details of which have been laboriously collected from the Buddhist scriptures and arranged in such a way as to enable one to see the large masses of details about Buddha's career in their logical and chronological relations, has certainly a great value not only for scholars but for ordinary readers interested in ...