Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism by Decaroli, Robert - 2004

Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Hardcover. VG+ (light wear to boards. crease to upper spine edge of dustjacket; like scuffs, scratches). black boards w/ reflective green spine printing. book viii, 230 pages w/ bw illustrations. glossy black dustjacket w/ illustrations, light blue printing. A nice, bright copy; appears to be have been lightly handled and read. "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… Read More

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Hardback. New. Drawing on fieldwork, 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.

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