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• Title: Discovery of Living Buddhism in Bengal
• Author : Haraprasád Śastrí
• Release Date : January 29, 2013
• Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 619 KB

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Eastern India was the great stronghold of Buddhism. It had its origin in Eastern India, it developed in Kastcrn India,, and. it lingered longest in Eastern India. The Bhiksus of Eastern India carried the religion of Çákya Simlia to Ceylon, to China, to the Eastern Archipelago, to further India, to Tibet, and even to Mongolia. The best Buddhist works were mostly written in Eastern India, and Eastern India contained the four great places of pilgrimage for the whole of the Buddhist world. Yet it is confidently asserted that for the last three or four centuries there has not been even a single votary of that religion in the whole of the Provinces of Bengal, Bihar, and Udisya. nay, even in the whole of India. All the great places of pilgrimage arc in shapeless ruins. Buddhist religious terms have disappeared from the language of the people. Not single Buddhist MS. has been found even after a careful search of thirty years. The name of Buddha is, of course, known but as the ninth incarnation Visrm. The names of his followers and his doctrines are absolutely unknown. The Rule of his doctrine that is known, is known from the works, now little studied, of Nai- yáyikas who wrote treatises to refute them. In Eastern India itself the previous existence of Buddhism had to be discovered by the antiquarian zeal of European Orientalists.

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