This volume looks at ancient India during the period of Buddhist ascendancy from a non-Brahmin point of view. It includes a detailed account of the socio-economic, geopolitical and religious conditions of the country at the time and pays particular attention to the activities of Candragupta, Asoka, Kaniska and the Jatakas.
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WHEN Buddhism arose these was no paramount sovereign in India. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dialogues of the Buddha, Vinaya Texts, Buddhist Order, Banyan Deer, North India, Northern India, Rig Veda, Rock Edict, Royal Asiatic Society, Buddhist Sanskrit, Buddhist Suttas, Mote Hall, Buddhist Birth Stories, South India, Sutta Nipata, Atharva Veda, Pali Text Society, Bharhut Tope, Branch Deer, Buddha Epic, Buddha Vamsa, Great Wood, Island Chronicle, King of Kosala, Kosala Devi New!
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WHEN Buddhism arose these was no paramount sovereign in India. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dialogues of the Buddha, Vinaya Texts, Buddhist Order, Banyan Deer, North India, Northern India, Rig Veda, Rock Edict, Royal Asiatic Society, Buddhist Sanskrit, Buddhist Suttas, Mote Hall, Buddhist Birth Stories, South India, Sutta Nipata, Atharva Veda, Pali Text Society, Bharhut Tope, Branch Deer, Buddha Epic, Buddha Vamsa, Great Wood, Island Chronicle, King of Kosala, Kosala Devi New!
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- Cave Temples of India by James Burgess in Front Matter, and page 31
- Buddhist Art in India by Albert Grunwedel on page 223, and page 303
- Buddhist Psychology: An Inquiry into the Analysis and Theory of Mind of Pali Literature by C.A.F.Rhys Davids on page 175
- Buddhist India by Rhys T. W. Davids in Front Matter
- Dialogues of the Buddha : part III (Sacred Books of the Buddhists) (v. 3) by C.A.F. Rhys-Davids on page 296
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- Chinese Religion Though Hindu Eyes: A Study in the Tendencies of Asiatic Mentality 1916 by Benoy Kumar Sarkar on 4 pages
- Pain and Its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) by Carol Anderson on page 129, page 207, and Back Matter
- The Ethics of Buddhism (Curzon Paperbacks) by Shundo Tachibana on page 18, and page 21
- Subordinate and Marginal Groups in Early India (Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History) by Aloka Parasher-Sen on page 123, and page 200
- Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (Bollingen Series, Vol. LVI) by Mircea Eliade on page 399, and Back Matter
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