- Bib ID:
- 4918789
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- LaFleur, William R
- Description:
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- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1988
- x, 150 p. : ill., map, plan ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0130847240
- Series:
- Prentice-Hall series in world religions.
- Full contents:
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- Buddhism and culture in history
- Overview: Bangkok and its buddhas
- A history of buddhism
- Always there : the open ends of history
- Development : from Śakyamuni to the Buddha
- Expansion of the Sangha
- Penetration into East Asia
- The Theravada
- Expansion northward and to the "West"
- The great death in a mud village
- Zen's first patriarch : legend and history
- Difficult places along the middle path
- The general nature of dissent in buddhism
- Women and the dharma
- A bone of contention in the Middle Kingdom
- Twenty-five hundred years of poetry
- Analysis of the buddhist tradition : the three treasures
- The dharma : doctrine and philosophy
- Buddhaghosa : a classical theravada thinker
- Keiji Nishitani : a modern mahayana thinker
- The buddha : models and rituals
- A theravada monastery
- Sesshin
- The sangha : community and modernity
- Lama
- Monks ablaze.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-147) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- From the collection of Dr Richard Mason.
- Subject:
- Buddhism
- Copyright:
-
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