Buddhist Sects in India

Author: Nalinaksha Dutt

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Release Date: 01-12-2012

Details: It was after the publication of the translation of the Chinese version of Vasumitra's treatise on eighteen sects of Buddhism in India by Prof. J. Masuda, who happened to be a Lecturer in the Calcutta University and also a colleague of the present writer, in the Asia Major. Vol. II (1925) supplemented by the Tibetan texts on the eighteen schools by Bhavya and Vinitadeva entitled Nikaya-bhedavibhanga and Samaya bhedopararcana-cakra respectively. This book has been written an Epilogue, in which an attempt has been made to show how Mahayanism developed as a natural consequence of the views of the Mahasanghiksas and as a development of the nebulous conception of Bodhisattva and Buddhakayas in the Divyavadana and Avadana - sataka, ascribed to the Sarvastivadins and also as a reaction to the realism of the Sarvastivadins, and how gradually Mahayanism surpassed Hinayanism both in popularity and propagation. To this book has been added an Appendix, giving a synopsis of the ancient geography of India as described by Hiuen Tsang, throwing light on the dispersal of Buddhish sects in India along with a brief account of I-Tsing about the Buddhist sects in India and the localities where these were existing at his time, i.e., half a century after Hiuen Tsang's visit to India.

EAN: 9788183151986

Languages: English