A History of Indian Buddhism: From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana (ASIAN STUDIES AT HAWAII)
By Hirakawa Akira.
Description
This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism. Relying on Pali and Sanskrit sources and on inscriptions from archaeological sites and Chinese translations of Indian texts, Hirakawa balances his review of early Buddhist doctrinal development with extensive discussion of historical background and the evolution of Buddhist institutions. The inclusion of Japanese and Western language bibliographies together with an extensive bibliographic ...
ISBN(s)
0824812034, 9780824812034