Cross Currents in Early Buddhism

Surendra Nath Dube (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

426 Seiten

2024 | Second Edition
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (Verlag)
9789394262218 (ISBN)

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The new ideas took a definite shape, probably, not later than the close of the first century b.c. And, if its emergence is to be so placed, there is no reason why the roots may not be found earlier. Certain doctrines debated in the Kathavatthu seem to delineate a bridge between the Hinayana and the Mahayana sects.

Roughly about a century after Lord Buddha’s demise, his teachings came to be closely scrutinized, when the meanings and significance of traditional Buddhist ideas were intensely examined and diverse hypotheses advanced to elucidate and harmonize them internally within the context of Buddhist thought, as also with the ideas which were, then, current in the general intellectual milieu of the times. The present study attempts to analyze the world of thought presented in the Kathavatthu, an important canonical text on doctrinal controversies. The tradition ascribes it to the age of Mauryan Emperor Asoka. It is indeed gratifying to place before the students of Buddhist studies a second edition of the Cross Currents in Early Buddhism. An important feature of the new edition is the addition of an exhaustive introduction to the work and a concluding chapter entitled, ‘Threshold of Mahayana’, which shows that its emergence was not accidental. lt was in the making for a long as reflected in the novel ideas put forth by the dissident sects like Mahasa?ghaikas and their sub-sects.

Surendra Nath Dube (b. 1941) is a former Tagore Professor and Head of the Department of History and Indian Culture, University of Rajasthan, where he taught for 35 years. Beside several research papers, both in Indian and foreign journals, his major publications include, History of Indian Civilization and Culture (1985), Religious Movements in Rajasthan (1996), Ideas and Movements in the Age of the Mauryas.

Preface in the second edition
Extracts from the Preface to the First Edition
Abbreviations
Introduction
Section A: Genesis and Growth of Controversies
Section B: Controversies Reflecting Religious Development and the Mahasamghika Impact
Section C: Controversies Reflecting Philosophical Development and the Beginnings of new School
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2023
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-13	9789394262218 / 9789394262218
Zustand	Neuware