• ISBN13: 9789384092320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: September 16, 2017
• Pages: 258
• Original Price: INR 1095.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 526 grams

This book encompasses wide-ranging yet fundamental questions that have played a pivotal role in introducing, defining, structuring, and institutionalizing rules, practices, and traditions throughout the historical stretch of Buddhism. The papers herein explore dāna in Buddhism as a primarily rational and ethical phenomenon and examine its superimposing, mythic, and cultic dimensions attainable only to the eye of faith. The scholars who contributed their papers have attempted to examine dāna in Buddhism either with regard to contemporary religious traditions or in relation to its various sects and traditions, re-examining the established hypothesis and challenging occasional extremes that are prone to carrying exaggerations.

edited by Anand Singh is the Dean of School of Buddhist Studies and Civilization at Gautam Buddha University.