Here is an authoritative and systematic record, based on a close study of contemporary Buddhist, Brahmanical and secular literary texts and epigraphic and monumental antiquities of India together with the Chinese, the Tibetan documents bearing on the period, and it presents a living picture of Buddhist faith, worship, monachism, moral culture, art, education, literature, scholasticism, esoteric mysticism.
Studies in The buddhistic Culture of India, Joshi, MLBD, New Delhi, 2002. (reprint), pp. xxiv + 497.
L. M. Joshi is a Buddhist scholar from the Rajasthan University, Jaipur, student of G.C. Pande.
Contents:
Foreword Excerpts from Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Editionv I. Background of Earlier Developmentv
II. Buddhism During the 7th and 8th Centuries
III. Buddhist Art in the Monasteries
IV. Monastic Life and Discipline
V. Ethical and Spiritual Culture
VI. Buddhist Education and Its Centres
VII. Buddhist Learning and Literature
VIII. Buddhist Philosophy and Dialectics
IX. Kuumarila an dSankara on Buddhism
X. Origin and Growth of Exoteric Buddhism
XI. Doctrines and Practices of Esoteric Buddhism
XII. Beginnings of the Decline ofBuddhism in India
XIII. Buddhist Contribution to Indian Culture
Notes and references Abbreviations Bibliiography Index
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