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Buddhism

By Lopez, Donald S.

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Buddhism

By Lopez, Donald S.

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One of the world's leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day "Perhaps no scholar is as well suited to serve as a guide to such travel as Lopez. . . . [He] excels at bringing moments of the Buddhist past to life."-Natasha Heller, Times Literary Supplement   Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in northern India to become a global tradition of remarkable breadth, depth, and richness. In this ambitious book, Donald S. Lopez Jr. draws on the latest scholarship to construct a detailed and innovative history of Buddhism-not just as a chronology through the centuries or as geographic movement across a map, but as a dense matrix of interconnections.   Beginning with the life and teachings of the Buddha, Lopez shows how a set of evolving ideas and practices traveled north and east to China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, and Tibet, south and southeast to Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Indonesia, and finally westward to Europe and the Americas. He provides insights on questions that Buddhism has asked and answered in different times and different places-about apocalypse, art, identity, immortality, law, nation, persecution, philosophy, science, sex, war, and writing.   Vast in its erudition and expansive in its vision, this is the most complete single¿volume history of Buddhism in its full historical and geographical range.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
519
Release Date:
2025-01-07
Publication Date:
2025-02-11
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0300234260
ISBN13:
9780300234268
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[email protected]
Weight:
896 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
37 cm
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