The Sociology of Early Buddhism
by Greg Bailey
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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Description of The Sociology of Early Buddhism by Greg Bailey
This volume analyzes the remarkable ability of Buddhism to survive within a strong urban environment despite its renunciant nature. Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions and the need for cultural uniformity in the newly emergent states in northeastern India from the fifth century BCE onwards. In spite of the Buddhist ascetic imperative, the Buddha and other celebrated monks moved easily through various levels of society and fitted into the urban landscape they inhabited. The book offers reasons for this apparent inconsistency.
|Product:|| The Sociology of Early Buddhism|
|Author:|| Greg Bailey|
|Author:|| Ian Mabbett|
|Binding Type:|| Encrypted PDF|
|Media Type:|| eBook|
|Number of Pages:|| 292|
|Publisher:|| Cambridge University Press|
|Publication Date:|| November 1999|
|Street Date:|| 11/26/1999|
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