BOOK SUMMARY OF BUDDHA AND THE SPREAD OF BUDDHISM IN INDIA AND ABROAD FACETS OF
BUDDHIST THOUGHT AND CULTURE: VOL. 2
The origin and spread of Buddhism has been a landmark in the history of Greater
India (MahÈ BhÈrata or B‚hattara BhÈrata) the boundaries of which covered a
large part of Asia. As stated earlier, ƒÈkyamuni, the Buddha, was the inheritor
of an ancient, rich and varied cultural tradition of a very high order and he
formulated and established a new culture out of it which was theoretically
enlightening and practically redeeming from the labyrinth of suffering,
imperfection, impermanence and other vicissitudes of life.