The world of Buddhism : Buddhist monks and nuns in society and culture / texts by Richard Gombrich ... [et al.] ; edited by Heinz Bechert and Richard Gombrich.

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TextPublication details: London : Thames and Hudson, c1991.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: 308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmISBN:

0500276285
9780500276280

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BQ 4012 .W67 1991

Summary: 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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	Open Shelf	Albukhary International University LEVEL 2				BQ 4012 .W67 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			1100030713

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-[296]) and index.

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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