The present work is designed to consist of a group of organically connected historical studies relating to the origins of Buddhism. It is the doctrinal rather than the institutional aspect of Buddh…
The EDICTS OF ASOKA, kept in stone in the Hindu Continent have longtanding validity. Although they have no longer the force of law, they serve as pillars for 21st century Legislation. The world is …
This 14th century lively history introduces basic Buddhism as practiced throughout India and Tibet and describes the process of entering the Buddhist path through study and reflection. In the first…
There is no dearth of books and monographs on Indian Buddhism but a related account of the rise, development of Buddhism and its decline has not been attempted. The present work is a modest contrib…
The Ascendancy of Theravada Buddhism is a comprehensive study of the advent of Buddhism in Southeast Asia, especially in Thailand during the first millennium CE. The author, Prapod Assavavirulhakar…
Originally published as: Bukkyō no jōshiki ga wakaru shōjiten. [Tokyo] : PHP Institute, [2002]rnTranslated from the Japanese.
Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth a…