Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism by Robert DeCaroli
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Overview: Early European histories of India frequently reflected colonialist agendas. The idea that Indian society had declined from an earlier Golden Age helped justify the colonial presence. It was said, for example, that modern Buddhism had fallen away from its original identity as a purely rational philosophy that arose in the mythical 5th-century BCE Golden Age unsullied by the religious and cultural practices that surrounded it.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Humanities > Religious Studies > Buddhism
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