The present work by the renowned Indian historian Professor S. R. Goyal provides a comprehensive post-Buddha history of Indian Buddhism. Though there are several monographs available on the history of Buddhism in India but none of them seeks, as the present work does, to study the history of this religion against the background of India's cultural evolution and delineate its impact on and contribution to various facets of Indian culture. Further, most of the works dealing with the history of Indian Buddhism stop with the disappearance of Buddhism after the establishment of the Turkish rule in c. 1200 A.D. while the present monograph studies the fortunes of this religion in India up to the movement led by Baba Saheb Ambedkar. We, therefore, believe that it will be received enthusiastically by scholars and students of Indian Buddhism as a comprehensive work on the subject with a new approach from an authoritative pen.


Indian Buddhism after the Buddha, S.R. Goyal, Kusumanjali Book World, 360 pages, $26.50

Professor S. R. Goyal is a renowned Indian historian. He was former Professor and Head of the Department of History, J.N.V. Universiety, Jodhpur.

Contents:

Preface.

Introduction.

I. Buddhism in India after the Buddha upto the sack of Nalanda:
1. The four Buddhist councils.
2. The early Buddhist sects.
3. Expansion of Buddhism.
4. Causes of the success of Buddhism.
5. Mahayana Buddhism.
6. Tantrika Buddhism.

II. Buddhism and Indian culture:
7. Place of Buddhism in Indian history and culture.
8. Social philosophy of Buddhism.
9. Buddhist political thought.
10. Buddhist historiography and philosophy of history.
11. Buddhist system of education.
12. Buddhist literature and art.

III. Decline, disappearance and revival:
13. Decline and disappearance.
14. Revival of Buddhism in modern India.
15. Ambedkar and contemporary Indian Buddhism.

Appendices:
1. Asoka�s interest in Buddhism before his accession.
2. Pushymitra Sunga and the persecution of Buddhism.
3. Menander as a Buddhist King.
4. Kanishka and Buddhism.
5. The two Vasubandhus and the imperial Guptas.
6. Was Harsha personally a Buddhist?
7. Sasanka and Buddhism.
8. Buddhism under the Pala dynasty.
9. Buddhist symbols and Buddha image on ancient Indian coins.
10. Buddhism in early South Indian history.

Bibliography.
Index.