International Encyclopaedia of Buddhism (Volumes 19 to 36)

An authentic and outstanding work on Buddhism, compiled, edited and arranged in countrywise, alphabetical order by a great scholar of Buddhism who has recreated with all the splendor and mystery of its oriental background, the life of Buddha. His great renunciation and His supreme leadership. This set includes theory of knowledge, Evolution and Development of Buddhism in global perspective, Self-reality and Starvation, Buddhist Sects, comparison of Buddhism and other Religions of the world, Buddhist conception of Space and time, Theory of Causation and Compassion, etc. A pioneering attempt to provide a comprehensive study of the rise and development of Buddhism. Buddhism was started from India and spread all over the world, through Bhutan, Burma, Tibet, China and Japan. Some literary and inscriptional sources remark that Lord Buddha Himself visited Burma and Bhutan. A vast collection of essays of more than 8000 renowned Buddhist scholars, philosophers, historians, sociologists of the world dealing with various aspects of Buddha, Buddhism and Buddhists, covering all aspects viz., Psychology, Religion, socio-economic aspects, Cosmology, Ethics, Mythology, Non-violence, Symbolism, Art and Architecture, Ascetic Practices of Purification, Language and Literature – Canonical and Non-canonical, Metaphysics and Physics, Building Architecture, Epigraphy and Inscriptions, Archeology, Antiquities and Monuments, Fasts and Festivals, Rites and Rituals, Tantricism, and Nuns, Madhyamik Philosophy, Nature of Asian and European Buddhism cosmic Spirit, social, Political, Economic and cultural Geography, Eschatological Concept, Chronology and History, solution of Environmental Crisis and peaceful co-existence of human beings.