ISBN:
0521831164
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 284 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Sociology of Early Buddhism
DDC:
306.6/943
Keywords:
Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)
;
Mediation Religious aspects
;
Buddhism
;
Buddhism Social aspects
Abstract:
Early Buddhism flourished because it took up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions in the newly emergent Indian states from the fifth century BCE. 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; BUDDHISM AS PROCESS: THREE VERSIONS OF BUDDHISM; THE INCOMMENSURABILITY OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS; 1 The problem: asceticism and urban life; THE EMPEROR'S CLOTHES; TRADE, CITIES, CENTRALIZED STATES AND REMEMBERED TRIBALISM; LEGITIMATION OF COMMERCIAL VALUES; PROTEST AGAINST COMMERCIAL VALUES; LEGITIMATION OF CITY LIFE; PROTEST AGAINST CITY LIFE; LEGITIMATION OF THE CENTRALIZED STATE; PROTEST AGAINST THE CENTRALIZED STATE; LEGITIMATION OF POST-TRIBAL CULTURE; PROTEST AGAINST POST-TRIBAL CULTURE
Description / Table of Contents:
CRITIQUE OF THE ARGUMENTS CONCERNING URBANIZATIONBUDDHISM AS A REMEDY IN AN AGE OF SUFFERING; SIMULTANEOUS LEGITIMATION AND PROTEST; THE FALLACY OF TREATING EFFECTS AS CAUSES; Context; 2 The social elite; 3 Economic conditions; 4 Urbanization, urbanism and the development of large-scale political structures; 5 Brahmins and other competitors; 6 Folk religion and cosmology: meeting of two thought worlds; Mediation; 7 The holy man; 8 Preparation of the monk for the mediatory role. Evidence from the Sutta Nipata; 9 The Dhammapada and the images of the bhikkhu
Description / Table of Contents:
10 The mediating role as shown in the Canon11 Exchange; Conclusion; Bibliography; BOOKS IN INDIC LANGUAGES; BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and index
,
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