Buddhist Studies from India to America

Download or read book Buddhist Studies from India to America written by Damien Keown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Prebish is Professor of Buddhism, Pennsylvania State University, US – a leading international scholar and co-founder of what is now the ‘Buddhism section’ of the American Academy of Religion, and served an additional term on the steering committee. Prebish is well known in N. America, and this book should attract readers in the region The author of the book, (Damien Keown), and Charles Prebish are editors of the Critical Studies in Buddhism series published by Routledge. Contributors are well-known international scholars whose participation guarantees that the academic quality of the work is high and the standard even throughout