Hardships and Downfall of Buddhism in India

Giovanni Verardi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

524 Seiten

2023
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (Verlag)
978-81-7304-928-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Whereas in the open society traders, landowners and 'tribals' coexisted, from Gupta times onwards pressure on kings and direct Brahmanical rule led to the requistions of the land and the impositions of a varna state society.

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Buddhism originated as an atinomial system, facing the opposition of both vaidika and theistic Brahmans, who socially identified themselves with the agrarian world. The two models of society generated in early historical India never merged, and Buddhism was gradually and often violently reduced to impotence. It was Gupta rule the first checkmated the antinomial model of the Buddhist.

Autor

As a member of ISIAO, Rome, Giovanni Verardi has carried out excavations in Afghanistan (Ghazni), Nepal(in Kathmandu and at the Asokan site of Gotihawa) and China (Luoyang), as well as extensive surveys and research work in India and Pakistan. He has been professor of India Archaeology and Archaeology of Central Asia at the Universita 'L' Orientale, Naples.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2023
• Verlagsort: New Delhi
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 250 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• ISBN-10: 81-7304-928-9 / 8173049289
• ISBN-13: 978-81-7304-928-6 / 9788173049286
• Zustand: Neuware