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Buddhist Teaching in India By Johannes Bronkhorst
2009 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 0861715667 | PDF | 1 MB



The Earliest Records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in. India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious milieu that included even the Greek kingdoms of northwestern India. Buddhism had many opportunities to both influence and be influenced by competing schools of thought. Even within Buddhism. a proliferation of interpretive traditions produced a dynamic intellectual climate. Johannes onkhorst here tracks the development of Buddhist teachings both within ...