INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Which among the following is also called encyclopedia of Buddhism? Notes: Abhidharma-mahavibhasa known as Mahavibhaṣa, is a Vaibhashika written treatise on Sarvastivada abhidharma. It translated into Chinese by the scholar–pilgrim Xuanzang and his translation team between 656 and 659 C.E.

Detailed explanation-2: -Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is the first comprehensive academic reference work devoted to the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of this complex phenomenon in six thematically arranged volumes: literature and languages (I, publ. 2015), lives (II, publ.

Detailed explanation-3: -About the Author Damien Keown is Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Detailed explanation-4: -Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣa Śāstra, by Katyāyāniputra Its authorship is traditionally attributed to five hundred arhats, some 600 years after the parinirvāṇa of the Buddha. Its compilation, however, is attributed to a certain Katyāyāniputra.

Detailed explanation-5: -Theravada (’Doctrine of the Elders’) Older of the two major schools of Buddhism. The doctrine originated early in the history of Buddhism as a contrast to Mahayana (’greater vehicle’). Theravada Buddhism stresses that sorrow and suffering can be conquered only by the suppression of desire.