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The Sociology of early Buddhism / Greg Bailey and Ian Mabbett.
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View onlineVan Pelt Library BQ4570.S6 B35 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Greg, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism--Social aspects--South Asia.
- Buddhism.
- Mediation--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Mediation.
- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)--South Asia.
- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism).
- Buddhism--Social aspects.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- The problem: asceticism and urban life
- The social elite
- Economic conditions
- Urbanization, urbanism and the development of large-scale political structures
- Brahmins and other competitors
- Folk religion and cosmology: meeting of two thought worlds
- The holy man
- Preparation of the monk for the mediatory role. Evidence from the Sutta Nipāta
- The Dhammapada and the images of the bhikkhu
- The mediating role as shown in the canon
- Exchange
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521831164
- OCLC:
- 52208540
- Online:
- Publisher description
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