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The Sociology of Early Buddhism

By: Greg Bailey, Ian Mabbett

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Paperback | 16 March 2006

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Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions and the need for cultural uniformity in the newly emergent states in north-eastern India from the fifth century BCE onwards. This book begins with the apparent inconsistency of Buddhism, a renunciant movement, surviving within a strong urban environment, and draws out the implications of this. In spite of the Buddhist ascetic imperative, the Buddha and other celebrated monks moved easily through various levels of society and fitted into the urban landscape they inhabited. The Sociology of Early Buddhism tells how and why the early monks were able to exploit the social and political conditions of mid-first millennium north-eastern India in such a way as to ensure the growth of Buddhism into a major world religion. Its readership lies both within Buddhist studies and more widely among historians, sociologists and anthropologists of religion.

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'It is a scholarly and objective study, despite the fact that it tends to underrate other opinions.' Expository Times 'This is a substantial work of scholarship, closely written, a mass of facts and arguments, with an impressive bibliography. It is certainly a useful compilation.' Bulletin of the SOAS

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Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
The problem: asceticism and urban life
Context
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
Mediation
The holy man
Preparation of the monk for the mediatory role. Evidence from the Sutta Nipata
The Dhammapada and the images of the bhikkhu
The mediating role as shown in the Canon
Exchange
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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