Buddhist Thought in India: Three Phases of Buddhist Philosophy

This book ‘Buddhist Thought in India’ written in a lucid style by Edward Conze interprets the principal themes of Buddhist thought. The themes being: Archaic Buddhism, The Sthaviras and The Mahayana. The book is a sequel to the author’s ‘Buddhist Meditation’ (also published and available from us), which is a collection of the most important traditional accounts of Buddhist meditational practices. Some familiarity with these practices will greatly assist the reader of this book, which derives the tenets of Buddhist philosophy from the meditational experiences of the Buddhist yogins. In the book, the author has aimed at furthering the understanding, as distinct from the bare knowledge, of Buddhist thinking.