Buddhism : A Journey through History / Donald S. Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lopez, Donald S., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--History.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

One of the world’s leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in northern India to become a global tradition of remarkable breadth, depth, and richness. In this ambitious book, Donald S. Lopez Jr. draws on the latest scholarship to construct a detailed and innovative history of Buddhism—not just as a chronology through the centuries or as geographic movement across a map, but as a dense matrix of interconnections. Beginning with the life and teachings of the Buddha, Lopez shows how a set of evolving ideas and practices traveled north and east to China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, and Tibet, south and southeast to Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Indonesia, and finally westward to Europe and the Americas. He provides insights on questions that Buddhism has asked and answered in different times and different places—about apocalypse, art, identity, immortality, law, nation, persecution, philosophy, science, sex, war, and writing. Vast in its erudition and expansive in its vision, this is the most complete single-volume history of Buddhism in its full historical and geographical range.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Global History of Buddhism

1 • History

2 • Apocalypse

3 • Art

4 • Canon

5 • Council

6 • Disappearance

7 • Encounter

8 • Food

9 • Identity

10 • Immortality

11 • Incarnation

12 • Innovation

13 • Law

14 • Narrative

15 • Nation

16 • Ordination

17 • Orthodoxy

18 • Persecution

19 • Philosophy

20 • Pilgrimage

21 • Rule

22 • Schism

23 • Science

24 • Self

25 • Sex

26 • Society

27 • War

28 • Women

29 • Wrath

30 • Writing

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Feb 2025)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780300281491

0300281498

OCLC:

1504509378