Buddhism in South Asia - Couverture rigide

Singh, A.K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8175331674 ISBN 13 : 9788175331679

Editeur : M D Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2009

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

This book is about Buddhism in South-Asia. How Buddhism started un this part of the world and later spread across the world, this book covers these topics.Buddhism originated in this part of the world and is the state religion of the countries like Sri Lanka and Bhutan and Buddhists are in good number in other SouthAsian countries.This book starts with the introduction of Buddhism and further traces the development of Buddhism in South Asia along with its branches and schools.The thoughts of Buddhism, early literature of Buddhism, Philosphy of Buddhism,Buddhism in modern century, spreading of Buddhism to the west and other aspects of Buddhism are the key compnents of its characterization and description.These topics are covered in elaborative and meticulous manner and language has been kept simple which is easy to understand.We expect that th epresent book will be very useful for the scholars who want to read know about the Buddhism in South Asian countries.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Arvind Kumar Singh did his M.A., M. Phil and PhD. in Buddhist Studies from Delhi University. Presently he is teaching M.A. and M. Phil students at the department of buddhist studies, University of Delhi from where he has obtained all his higher degrees. Along with the teaching assignment, he is also involved in other departmental activities like assisting the editors of the departmental journal named Buddhist Studies and due to his hard work and committment towards this, the department has been able to publish three departmental journals and two more journals are about to be published in a short span of time. He has written a book named A Textbook of the history of Theravada buddhism (2007). He has also compiled a book named Researchers in Buddhist Studies: A Descriptive Bibliography. He has presented many research articles at the national and international conferences and few of them have been published in different journals of repute.

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