Buddha
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Author_Michael Carrithers
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- ISBN 9780192854537
- Weight: 119g
- Dimensions: 113 x 179mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2001
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his thought. He also assesses the rapid and widespread assimilation of Buddhism and its contemporary relevance.
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Michael Carrithers is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham and author of The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka and Why Humans Have Cultures: Explaining Anthropology and Social Diversity (both published by OUP).
