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Edward Conze - 1962 - Buddhist Thought in India - Three Phases of Buddhist (Double page scan) (150pp).pdf Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks (Book 129) Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: University of Michigan Press (October 1, 1967) Language: English ISBN-10: 0472061291 ISBN-13: 978-0472061297 This book is so important, and still so relevant more than 45 years after it's publication, despite lots of recent scholarship on the early development of Buddhism. If you have some background in the development of early Buddhist schools, or some sense of Buddhism in India over the first few hundred years, and better yet, if you also have some experience of Buddhist practice, then you might just find this book hugely enjoyable. I am re-reading it for the first time in thirty years or so, and cannot begin to express my delight in Conze's scholarship and clarity. He is opinionated, perhaps; curmudgeonly, as one previous reviewer suggests, hardly. You should however be advised that this is NOT a general introduction to the history Buddhist thought, nor is it particularly light reading; though it is very well written, as such scholarly works go. Regardless, it is a classic of western Buddhist scholarship, and invaluable no matter what your Buddhist doctrinal inclinations are, or what your background in formal practice might be. About the author. For this larger than life character, you really need to start with the Wikipedia page and then move on to his Memoirs Sharing Widget |