Buddhist Precept and Practice; Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon.
London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1995. First Edition Thus, Revised. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 427pp. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine, yellow endpages, appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index. Author, Dr. Richard Gombrich has been Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Oxford University and Professor Fellow of Balliol College & has published eight books and about over forty articles on Buddhism and related subjects. This volume being a revised edition of his "Buddhist Precept and Practice" first published in 1971. From the publisher: "In this work, Dr. Gombrich is concerned with religious change in belief and practice, not only in modern times but over the two and a half millennia during which Buddhism has flourished. He concludes that Sinhalese Buddhism has been remarkably conservative and rejects the assumption that it degenerated from an original high standard, by questioning whether it ever was as pure as a superficial reading of classical texts might suggest. It would be very difficult to provide a combination of scholarship and sympathy such as that which pervades Dr. Gombrich s writing, and makes it a landmark in the study of religion." Just a hint of shelf wear - else a tight, unmarked near Fine copy, in mylar protected near Fine dust jacket (Light rubbing and creasing to edges, not clipped.). Item #69311
ISBN: 0710304447
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