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The World of Buddhism

Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture

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Richard Gombrich

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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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Weight 1349 g
Dimensions 22 x 30 cm
Publisher name Thames and Hudson Ltd
Publication date 1 November 1991
Number of pages 308
Format Paperback / softback
Contributors Edited by Heinz Bechert
Dimensions 22 x 30 cm
Weight 1349 g

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Richard Gombrich is an Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, 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.

Heinz Bechert (1932 - 2005) was a German indologist and buddhologist.

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