Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Padma Holt, Sree; Barber, A. W.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the importance of Buddhism as it developed in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra (modern-day Andhra Pradesh) and its influence.

Offering perspectives from a distinguished group of international scholars, this book provides a multidisciplinary inquiry into the various forms of Buddhism that thrived during the early centuries of the common era in the Krishna River Valley areas of what is now the modern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The contributors explore not only the factors that led to the rise of Buddhist communities, but also the significance of these early Buddhist communities in the unfolding of the greater history of Buddhism throughout the Asian world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791478141
• Artikelnr.: 60501974

Autorenporträt

Sree Padma Holt is Administrative Director of the ISLE Program at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Costume, Coiffure, and Ornaments in the Temple Sculpture of Northern Andhra. A. W. Barber is Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Calgary. He is the editor of Tibetan Tripitaka, Taipei Edition.