Buddha and Buddhism [English+Bengali]

Author: Biswanath Banerjee
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Biswanath Banerjee/ Sukomal Chaudhuri
Publisher: The Asiatic Society
Year: 2005
Language: multilingual
Pages: 334
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A

Description

The present volume under the title Buddha and Buddhism has been published on the occasion of a National Seminar on Pali and Buddhism organized by the Asiatic Society.

Buddhism now is a vast subject. For more than two centuries researches have been carried on Buddhism in its various aspects throughout the world. Thousands of books have been published in different languages and thousands and thousands of research papers have been published on Buddhism in so many journals of the world.

So, two days seminar will not be enough to cover the entire Buddhism. We have therefore, selected our topic for the seminar as pali and Buddhism, Just to give more emphasis on Pali Buddhism that is the earlier phase of Buddhism with special reference to Pali language and Literature.

Contents

Foreword
Editors Note

Origin of Pali
SUNITI KUMAR CHATTERJI

Background of Buddhism: A Brief Survey
ANUKUL CHANDRA BANERJEE

Buddha, the Founder, and his career
RYUDO YASUI

The Dhamma is it a Philosophy?
NARADA THERA

The Samgha and Buddhist Education
S. DUTT

Buddhist Councils
B. JINANANDA

Ashoka and the Expansion of Buddhism
P.V. BAPAT

Expansion of Buddhism in India, Central Asia and China
PRABODH CHANDRA BAGCHI

Expansion of Buddhism in Southern Countries
R.C. MAJUMDAR

Expansion of Buddhism in Tibet, Ladakh and Nepal
V.V. GOKHALE

Expansion of Buddhism in Korea and Japan
J.N. TAKASAKI

Buddhist Sects in India
ANUKUL CHANDRA BANERJEE

Buddhist Sects in Southern Countries
P.V. BAPAT

Buddhist Sects in Japan
J.N. TAKASAKI

Buddhist Sects in China
G.H.Sasaki

Period of Transition from Hinayana to Mahayana
NALINAKSHA DUTT

Difference between Theravada and Mahayana at a glance
KEIKO SODA

Later Modifications of Buddhism A. Tantric Buddhism
ANAGARIKA GOVINDA

B. Mantrayana School
BISWANATH BANERJEE

The Essentials of Buddhs-Dhamma in Practice
SYAGAYI U.BA. Khin


The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation
SHRI S.N. GOENKA

Buddha’s Message to the World
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Role of Buddhism in Indian Life and Thought
BENIMADHAB BARUA

Grammatical Works in Pali
SUKOMAL CHAUSDHURI