Written by the leading authority on Theravada Buddhism, this up-dated edition takes into account recent research to include the controversies over the date of the Buddha and current social and political developments in Sri Lanka. Gombrich explores the legacy of the Buddha's predecessors and the social and religious contexts against which Buddhism has developed and changed throughout history, demonstrating above all, how it has always influenced and been influenced by its social surroundings in a way which continues to this day.
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Richard F. Gombrich is Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, and one of the most renowned Buddhist scholars in the world. From 1976 to 2004 he was Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford. He has been President of the Pali Text Society and was awarded the Sri Lanka Ranjana decoration by the President of Sri Lanka in 1994 and the SC Chakraborty medal by the Asiatic Society of Calcutta the previous year. He has written extensively on Buddhism, including How Buddhism Began: the Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings (Routledge 2005); and with Gananath Obeyesekere, Buddhism transformed: Religious change in Sri Lanka (1988).
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Overview is lacking in some regards,
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This review is from: Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices) (Hardcover)
The author's choices are a little strange to me. Why spend so much time on the pre-Buddhist vedic tradition and then say absolutely nothing about Buddhism in India post-Ashoka? Granted, he mentions that there isn't much information to be had about Theravada in India, but there is some. He cuts right to Sri Lanka though.Otherwise its a decent overview. If it was titled "A Social History from 430-300 BCE and 1100-present CE" it would be much more accurate.
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- Buddhism: A Concise Introduction by Huston Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion) by James Egge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Different Paths of Buddhism: A Narrative-Historical Introduction by Carl Olson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion by Stephen Sharot in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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