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Vajrayana Buddhist Centres in South India
By: Dr. B. Subrahmayam
Vajrayana Buddhist Centres in South India


 
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Author: Subrahmayam
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 8186050590
Publication Date: 2001


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The glorious epoch in the History of Buddhism in India marked the efflorescence of culture in every aspect of life. The present book deals with one such aspect i.e. the Rise of the Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism at various centres, particularly in South India. The Author in this book made an attempt to trace the circumstances in which the Vajrayana School of Philosophy took the reins of degenerated tenets of earlier orthodox Schools of philosophy and made enquiries into various aspects that it contributed for the continuity of Buddhism as a Religion upto the post-Vijayanagara Times in South india. The present book Vajrayana Buddhist Centres in South India is the first of its kind which deals comprehensively with the history of Buddhism in south India and the concentration of Vajrayana Buddhist centres. The author places before scholars a dis-passionate Account of the Vajrayana Buddhist centres, with their historical background and the emergence of various deities with the relevant sadhanas, besides the probable beginnings of Vajrayana Buddhism in South India. The book contains new interpretations, besides reporting fresh discoveries and particularly the various factors that prompted to the emergence of the concept of pancha Buddha or Panch Vira cult from the Brahmanical and Buddhist origins. The new Theories cause a flutter among the scholars ad generate new Thoughts on the subject. The acceptability or otherwise of the ideas putforth by the author is left with humility, to the scholarly world. Contents Foreword Preface List of Plates 1. Introduction 2. Vajrayana Buddhist Centres : i. Andhra Pradesh

Vajrayana Buddhist Centres in South India ,Dr. B. Subrahmayam, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, Hardcover, 116 pp + 82 photographs, $58.00

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