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The World of Buddhism - Couverture souple

Gombrich, Richard

 
9780500276280: The World of Buddhism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0500276285 ISBN 13 : 9780500276280
Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

Half a millennium before Jesus, more than a millennium before Mohammed, the Buddha found Enlightenment. Today the number of his followers far exceeds the number of Christians and Muslims added together. Here, the fortunes of Buddhism are traced through time and space, from the founding of the world's largest monastic Order in north-eastern India 2,500 years ago to contemporary Europe and America. This volume, the result of years of painstaking and imaginative research and preparation, presents the whole of that contribution to Asiatic civilization in a vivid and authoritative manner. World-renowned scholars provide the eleven chapters, accompanied by illustrations drawn from the astonishing wealth of Buddhist art.

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À propos de l'auteur

Heinz Bechert (1932 - 2005) was a German indologist and buddhologist. Richard Gombrich is an Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pali, and Buddhist Studies. He was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2004. He is currently Founder-President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. He is a past President of the Pali Text Society (1994-2002) and General Editor Emeritus of the Clay Sanskrit Library.

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Éditeur
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0500276285
ISBN 13 
9780500276280
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
308
Éditeur
Bechert Heinz
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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