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Contents
The growth of dissent | 8 |
Varieties of Buddhist culture | 14 |
Buddhist decline in India | 24 |
The evidence of the Chinese pilgrims and Taranatha | 31 |
Buddhism and popular cults | 37 |
Buddhism in India today | 47 |
slow growth | 54 |
AntiBrahmanism and Dr Ambedkar | 67 |
Buddhism and wealth | 93 |
Recent studies of Buddhist economic activity | 100 |
an assessment | 108 |
The role of Ambedkar as culturehero | 116 |
The continuing depressed condition of the Scheduled | 123 |
Buddhist culture and Buddhist sect | 129 |
JNotes | 135 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Buddhist Revival in India: Aspects of the Sociology of Buddhism |
| Authors | Trevor Ling, Steven Axelrod |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer, 1980 |
| ISBN | 1349163104, 9781349163106 |
| Length | 151 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Buddhism / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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