Studies in the Buddhistic culture of India during the seventh and eighth centuries A.D. / Lal Mani Joshi
Imprint
Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 1977, c1967
Edition
2nd rev. ed
Descript
xxiii, 497 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Background of earlier development -- Buddhism during the 7th and 8th centuries -- Buddhist art in the monasteries -- Monastic life and discipline -- Ethical and spiritual culture -- Buddhist education and its centres -- Buddhist learning and literature -- Buddhist philosophy and dialectics -- Kumarila and samkara on Buddhism -- Origin and growth of esoteric Buddhism -- Doctrines and practices of esoteric Buddhism -- Beginnings of the decline of Buddhism in india -- Buddhist contribution to Indian culture