[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › Early Monastic Buddhism # Early Monastic Buddhism Buddha's life, early doctrine and saṅgha, councils, origin and doctrines of the eighteen schools, from Pāli, Sanskrit and Chinese/Tibetan sources. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [Nalinaksha Dutt](https://indike.org/pramana/person/dutt-n) - **Extent:** 3,995 passages, 185,720 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · Calcutta Oriental Series, 1941–1945 (2 vols); scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · In copyright (Nalinaksha Dutt †1973); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that… ## Contents - [v1 Volume 1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1) — 23 parts - [v2 Volume 2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v2) — 22 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941) · Pramāṇa