Richard F Gombrich: 2 books
Theravada Buddhism
A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Written by the leading authority on Theravada Buddhism, this up-dated edition takes into account recent research to include the controversies over the date of the Buddha and current social and political developments in Sri Lanka. Gombrich explores the legacy of the Buddha's predecessors and the social...
How Buddhism Began
The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
Written by one of the world's top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism, this new and updated edition of How Buddhism Began, discusses various important doctrines and themes in early Buddhism. It takes 'early Buddhism' to be that reflected in the Pali canon, and to some extent assumes that these...