The sociology of early Buddhism /
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Table of 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.