This book provides a straightforward and comprehensive survey of Buddhist history, from 500 BCE through to modern times. It introduces all the different doctrines, sects and beliefs, and follows their development over their centuries; it also covers all the different Buddhist schools. The expansion of Buddhism across the Asian continent is traced, and its development in India, Nepal and Kashmir, Ceylon, Central Asia, South-East Asia, Japan, China and Korea and Tibet is examined at length.
- ISBN10 1258844397
- ISBN13 9781258844394
- Publish Date 27 October 2013 (first published 1 December 1951)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Literary Licensing, LLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English