Reprint by Selangor Buddhist Vipassana Meditation Society
This book examines the relationship of Buddhism to its locus, the expanding agrarian economy of the Ganga valley during the period 600-300BC. It outlines the contours of the major social and economic groups that were the dramatic personae in this dynamic process, especially the gahapati, whose entrepreneurial role in the economy has not received the attention it deserves. the work explores the …