Prentice-Hall series in world religions. 

x, 150 pages : 23 cm.; pt. 1. Buddhism and culture in history. Overview: Bangkok and its Buddhas -- A history of Buddhism. Always there: the open ends of history ; Development: from Śakyamuni to the Buddha ; Expansion of the Sangha ; Penetration into East Asia ; The Theravada -- Expansion northward and to the "West" ; The great death in a mud village ; Zen's first patriarch: legend and history -- Difficult places along the middle path. The general nature of dissent in Buddhism ; Women and the Dharma ; A bone of contention in the Middle Kingdom -- Twenty-five hundred years of poetry -- pt. 2. Analysis of the Buddhist tradition: the three treasures. The Dharma: doctrine and philosophy. Buddhaghosa: a classical Theravada thinker ; Keiji Nishitani: a modern Mahayana thinker -- The Buddha: models and rituals. A Theravada monastery ; Sesshin -- The Sangha: community and modernity. Lama ; Monks ablaze.; 

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