Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c2.5

v1.c2.5

In the present volume an attempt has been made to answer three principal questions, *viz.*, what is *not* Buddhism, what is early (monastic) Buddhism, and how a Buddhist should live. The first seven chapters (pp. 1-92) are devoted to the first question while in the next four and the last chapter is delineated the career of Buddhism during the century immediately following Buddha's demise along with an account of the first council. The second question is dealt with in chapters XII-XV (pp. 198-273) and the third in the rest.