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Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism Hardcover - 2004
by Robert Decaroli
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When a student is introduced to the art of early Buddhism in a university course, a description of the Buddhist teachings usually precedes any examination of the art.
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- Title Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism
- Author Robert Decaroli
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, UK
- Date 2004-09-30
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780195168389 / 0195168380
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.69 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Buddhist
- Library of Congress subjects Art and mythology, Buddhism - India - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003019860
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.309
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- Choice, 05/01/2005, Page 1605
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Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Hardcover. VG+ (light wear to boards. crease to upper spine edge of dustjacket; like scuffs, scratches). black boards w/ reflective green spine printing. book viii, 230 pages w/ bw illustrations. glossy black dustjacket w/ illustrations, light blue printing. A nice, bright copy; appears to be have been lightly handled and read. "In this book Robert DeCaroli seeks to place the formation of Buddhism in its appropriate social and political contexts. It is necessary, he says, to acknowledge that the monks and nuns who embodied early Buddhist ideals shared many beliefs held by the communities in which they were raised. In becoming members of the monastic society, these individuals did not abandon their beliefs in the efficacy and the dangers represented by minor deities and spirits of the dead. Their new faith, however, gave them revolutionary new mechanisms with which to engage those supernatural beings." "Drawing on fieldwork as well as textual and…
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