Buddhism the First Millennium

Buddhism the First Millenium By Daisaku Ikeda

The history of Buddhism during the centuries following the death of its founder, Shakyamuni, is as fascinating and important as it is problematic. Little documentary evidence remains, but it was in this period that the religion split into its two major branches, the Maha sanghika and the Theravada, and spread beyond India to Central Asia and China in the north and Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia to the south.

In Buddhism, the First Millennium, the author pieces together the fabric of events from the distant past with insightful conjecture to bring to the surface the basic pattern of how and why Buddhism came to be a major world religion—spreading into Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan—helped along by exceptional rulers like the Indian king Ashoka and the Greek philosopher-king Menander, and monks and lay believers like Vimalakirti, Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu.

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