Encounter with Buddhism: a study of the evolution of Buddhist thought

Pandit, Moti Lal

The book explains the three phases of development of Buddhist thought in India and how it spread to countries as far as Japan.

Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, Vol.7, Fascicle 3: Petavatthu-saddhammapajjotika, ed. by W.G. Weeraratne

Epochs in Buddhist history: the Haskell lectures, 1921

Saunders, Kenneth J

ISBN: 9788176240420, 8176240427

Evolution of Buddhism: in the light of materialism in India

Ranjan, Deepak

ISBN: 9789380550480, 9380550480

Excavations at Lalitagiri (1985-1991)

Patnaik, Jeeban Kumar

Lalitagiri is one of the sites of Buddhist 'diamond triangle' in Odisha, the other two sites being Ratnagiri and Udayagiri. The excavations have brought to light plethora of Buddhist antiquities in the form of monasteries, apsidal chaitya, stupa and myriads of artifacts etc.

Buddhism: a living spiritual force

Lama, G.K.

ISBN: 9789391985189, 9391985181

The contribution of Buddhist thought and culture had been very important and distict in shaping the religious life of Asian people for at least eight long centuries from the first century BCE.

The footprint of the Buddha

Ludowyk, EFC

ISBN: 9789558129951, 955812995X

This book seeks to bring before the common reader the Buddhist monuments of old Ceylon--a distintive and valuable portion of the art of the ancient and medieval world.;

Footprints of foreign explorers on the Silk Road, compl. by the Information office of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, Chief ed. Wu Dunfu

ISBN: 9787508507064, 7508507061

Early Buddhist society: the world of Gautama Buddha

Liu, Xinru

ISBN: 9788178246505, 8178246503

A great deal is known about Buddhist tenets and doctrine, but very little exists on the lived context of the Buddha himself. Early Buddhist texts in Pali reveal a society in ways that other texts relating to Buddhism - including the Brahmanical literature - do not. Xinru Liu reads this literature to argue that the historical Buddha does not really exist in the imagination of most people, neithe...

From local to global: papers in Asian History and culture, 3 vols., ed. by Kamal Sheel et al.

ISBN: 9789380852744, 9380852746

From ogress to goddess Hariti: a Buddhist deity

Maheshwari, Madhurika K

ISBN: 9788186786277, 8186786279

The Buddhist Goddess - Hariti, comparable to the Brahmanical Sitala, has a dramatic life story; with many ups and down. Born to a yaksha king, married into another important yaksha royal family, she turns into child - eating ogress. Ultimately she gets converted by Sakyamuni Buddha Himself and attains arhatship. Riding on the Buddhist wave she becomes a cultic figure and travels to Central Asia...

Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia

Ray, Himanshu Prabha

ISBN: 9780815353058, 0815353057

This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia. Focusing on the multireligious context of the subcontinent in the first millennium BCE, the volume breaks from conventional studies that pose Buddhism as a counter to the Vedic tradition to understanding the religion more integrally in terms of dhamma (teachings of the Buddha),...

Gautama Buddha and origin of Buddhism

Singh, Mahesh Vikram et al

ISBN: 9789380836584, 9380836589

The glory of Sanchi (Singhalese & English) ed. by Ananda N. Tilakaratne

ISBN: 9551222680804, 1222680807

Golden Rock Temple of Dambulla: caves of infinite Buddhas

Seneviratna, Anuradha

Gotama Buddha: a biography, USA, 1920

Saunders, Kenneth J

ISBN: 9788189320119, 8189320114

The great chronicle of Buddhas: The State Buddha Sasana Council's version, Vol.6, Part-1, tr. into English by U Ko Lay et a l.

Vicittasarabhivamsa, Bhaddanta

This volume is devoted to the lives of Mahatheras who were the male disciples of the Buddhas.

The great chronicle of Buddhas: The State Buddha Sasana Council's version, Vol.1, Part-1, tr. into English by U Ko Lay et a l.

Vicittasarabhivamsa, Bhaddanta

The present volume is the complete English version, together with footnotes and comments, devoted to the story of Sumedha, the hermit.

The guide of the Buddhist monasteries and royal castles of Ladakh, 9th edition

Paldan, Thupstan

The heritage of Nalanda

Mani, C (b.1923) (ed.)

ISBN: 9788173053306, 8173053308

The book, an outcome of the research papers presented in the International Conference on `The Heritage of Nalanda' held at Nalanda (February 12 to 14, 2006), is a landmark in the field of scholarship. In its six parts with its critical delineation, has a veritable coverage as: (i) History. (ii) Art and Archaeology, (iii) Early Medieval Scholasticism: Logic, Philosophy and Esoterism, (iv) Litera...