A History of Indian Buddhism: From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana: v. 19 (Buddhist Tradition, v. 19) - Hardcover

Hirakawa Akira; Paul Groner

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9788120809550: A History of Indian Buddhism: From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana: v. 19 (Buddhist Tradition, v. 19)

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ISBN 10: 8120809556 ISBN 13: 9788120809550

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2018

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A History of Indian Buddhism, the summation of a lifetime of research on Indian Buddhism, is an exceptionally comprehensive discussion of Indian Buddhism, with detailed chapters on its history, doctrine and bibliography. The text also presents some of the debates on Indian Buddhism that have occurred in the Japanese academic community and emphasizes issues that have often been treated only in passing in India and the West. Hirakawa`s extensive use of Chinese translations of Indian Buddhist sources and his references to Japanese studies of these works are particularly noteworthy. Finally, the book includes an extensive bibliography of Western scholarship compiled by the translator., The life of the Buddha, Early Buddhist Doctrine, The organization of the order, The establishment of the early buddhist canon, The Development of the Buddhist order, The Buddhism of king Asoka, PART TWO: Nikaya Buddhism:

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Hirakawa Akira (b. 1915), is Professor Emeritus of Indian Philosophy at Tokyo University. He has also taught at Waseda, Komazawa, and Tohoku universities. In 1983, he was elected President of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, the most important academic organization for Buddhist studies in Japan. Hirakawa is the author or editor of over twenty books on Buddhism and has written more than 240 scholarly articles and reviews on Indian Buddhism.. He is widely recognized as one of the most eminent scholars of Indian Buddhism in Japan today. Paul Groner received his Ph. D. from Yale University and is currently Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.

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A History of Indian Buddhism, the summation of a lifetime of research on Indian Buddhism, is an exceptionally comprehensive discussion of Indian Buddhism. The text presents the debates on Indian Buddhism that have occured in the Japanese academic community and emphasizes issues that have often been treated only in passing in India and the West. Finally, the book includes bibliography which provides broad book of the study.

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