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"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 iconographic evidence, DeCaroli offers a comprehensive view of early Indian spirit-religions and their contributions to Buddhism - the first attempt at such a study since Ananda Coomaraswamy's pioneering work was published in 1928. The result is an important contribution to our understanding of early Indian religion and society, of interest to those in the fields of Buddhist studies, Asian history, art history, and anthropology."--BOOK JACKET.
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Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism
2004, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism
September 3, 2004, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
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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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