Publisher's Synopsis
This book provides a straightforward and comprehensive survey of Buddhist history, from 500 BCE through to modern times. It introduces all the different doctrines, sects and beliefs, and follows their development over their centuries; it also covers all the different Buddhist schools. The expansion of Buddhism across the Asian continent is traced, and its development in India, Nepal and Kashmir, Ceylon, Central Asia, South-East Asia, Japan, China and Korea and Tibet is examined at length.
