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028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD. _b;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002 _c;1081191 _d;18/08/2018
082			_a294.3657 DUTT
100			_aSukumar Dutt
245			_aBuddhist monks and monasteries of India _b : their history and their contribution to Indian culture _c/Sukumar Dutt
260			_aDelhi _b: M. Banarsidass _c, 1988
300			_a397 pages _b: illustrations, map _c; 25 cm
365			_b900
505			_aThe primitive sangha, The asoka-satavahana age 250 BC-AD 100 and its legacy, In the Gupta age (AD 300-550) and after, Eminent monk-Scholars of India, Monastic Universities, (AD 500-1200), Bib., Index.
520			_aThough India is no longer a Buddhist country, Buddhism held its place among Indian faiths for nearly seventeen centuries (500 B.C.-A.D. 1200). During this long stretch of time the Buddhist monks were organized in Sanghas in most parts of the country and their activities and achievements have profoundly influenced India`s traditional culture. There are monumental remains of Buddhist monastic life scattered all over India: in the south there are about a thousand cave-monasteries, among them Ajanta, world-famous for its exquisite mural paintings; in the north, less spectacular, the ruins of monastic edifices from Taxila in the west to Paharpur in the east. A connected history of the Buddhist monks of ancient India, their activities, their monastic establishments and their contributions to Indian culture, is available for the first time in this work, which is remarkable also for its pervading human interest. In reconstructing the history of the emperors and kings who were patrons of Buddhism, the early missionaries and the illustrious monk-scholars of later times, the author has used sources in four languages-Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan
650			_aReligion
655			_a Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- India. _bBuddhist monasteries
700			_aSukumar Dutt
942			_cBOOK
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