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The Sociology of Early Buddhism (Paperback, New ed)
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The Sociology of Early Buddhism (Paperback, New ed)
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Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the
challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions and the need
for cultural uniformity in the newly emergent states in
north-eastern India from the fifth century BCE onwards. This book
begins with the apparent inconsistency of Buddhism, a renunciant
movement, surviving within a strong urban environment, and draws
out the implications of this. In spite of the Buddhist ascetic
imperative, the Buddha and other celebrated monks moved easily
through various levels of society and fitted into the urban
landscape they inhabited. The Sociology of Early Buddhism tells how
and why the early monks were able to exploit the social and
political conditions of mid-first millennium north-eastern India in
such a way as to ensure the growth of Buddhism into a major world
religion. Its readership lies both within Buddhist studies and more
widely among historians, sociologists and anthropologists of
religion.
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