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The History of Indian Buddhism is undoubtedly Lamottes most brilliantcontribution to the field of Buddhist exegesis. The work contains a vividvigorous and fullydetailed description of early Buddhism and its teachingsthe material organization of the Community the formation and furtherdevelopments of Buddhist writings the conciliar traditions the evolution ofBuddhist sculpture and architecture the origins of the sects the Buddhistdialects and the constitution of the legends and sets them in the historicalbackground in which buddhist doctrines originated and expanded in India and inneighbouring countries. Using material evidence provided by Indian epigraphyand archaeological remains on the one hand and taking into account informationsupplied by Western Latin and Greek and Far Eastern Tibetan and Chinesesources on the other Lamotte has succeeded in producing a lucid and basic bookthat is unanimously considered as a classic of contemporary Buddhist studies.After thirty years the work has retained all its value but in order to meetthe requirements of recent Buddhist scholarship the book has been supplementedwith an additional bibliography an index of technical terms and revisedgeographical maps. «
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