Studies of Buddhism Book

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. The master's life in stone/R.C. Kar. 2. Dates of principal events in the Buddha's life/P.C. Sengupta. 3. The Buddha and language/Franklin Edgerton. 4. Phonetic convergence in Pali/Madhusudan Mallik. 5. Pali 'Maraji': Sanskrit 'Smarajit'/Sukumar Sen. 6. The Buddhist social ideals/B.G. Gokhale. 7. Buddhist controversy over the five propositions/Et. Lamotte. 8. Some Buddhist thinkers of Andhra/P.S. Sastri. 9. Harsa: a Buddhist/Dasharatha Sharma. 10. Some Buddhist antiquities and monuments of Rajasthan/R.C. Agrawala. 11. Buddhism in the classical age/Sudha Sengupta. 12. Buddhism in the Sunga period/Kunja Govinda Goswami. 13. Place of Buddhism in Indian thought/Nalinaksha Dutt. 14. Duhkha-Satya/W. Rahula. 15. Nirodha-Satya. 16. Pratityasamutpada/Anukul Chandra Banerjee. 17. Buddhist psychology/Bratindra Kumar Sengupta. 18. Brahman of Sankara and Sunyataof Madhyamikas/Ajit Ranjan Bhattacharya. 19. A rare type of Bodhisattva-images from Sanchi/Debala Mitra. 20. Scientific background of the Buddhist Tantras/B. Bhattacharyya. 21. Buddhism in South-East Asia/R.C. Majumdar. 22. Principle of the King's righteousness/U.N. Ghoshal. 23. Buddhism in ancient Kambujadesa/B.N. Puri. 24. Harivarman's theory of cognition/N. Aiyaswami Sastri. 25. Narayanpur image of Vinayaka/Tapo Nath Chakravatti. 26. Zen Buddhism and Bodhidharma/W. Pachow. 27. Buddhist view re. eternity of the Vedas/Heramba Chatterjee. 28. Pataliputra: its importance in the history of Buddhism/Binayendranath Chaudhuri. 29. An early Buddha status from Yunnan/Walter Liebenthal. 30. A note of the Aryadharmadhatugarbhavivarana/Sunitikumar Pathak.

"This compendium of study of Buddhism was earlier published on the great and auspicious occasion on of the twenty-fifth century celebrations organised in the honour of Lord Buddha not only by our grateful nation but also by the world at large. The contributions of Buddhism are varied in the domains of language and literature, art and architecture and moral and social ideas throughout the whole world. The Buddha's teachings inference the religious culture of half of the humanity. It is all due to the fact that the Buddhism moves very easily from one culture to another because its emphasis is on internal practice rather than external forms of religious behaviour. Its emphasis is on the way each practioner develops his or her mind not on how he dresses, the kind of food he eats, the ways he bears his hair and so forth.

This volume is most interactive and highly educatives informative one and I hope that it will be very useful and popular among scholars, students and readers who are interested in Buddhism. The wholesome efforts by the different writers will be instrumental in creating interest and generating appreciation and encouragement for spreading over Buddhism in India and western countries in line of the eastern and southern countries of the world." (jacket)