Buddhist monks and monasteries of India: their history and their contribution to Indian culture/ Sukumar Dutt

PART I: THE PRIMITIVE SAl^GHA
(200-300 BC) Origin, Development and Organization
1. 'Wandeting Ahns}7ic'n' in the Upciniscids
2. The BHIKKHU-SANGHA as a Sect among the
Wanderers
3. Front Wandering to Settled Life
4. Farly Monk-settlements—AVASAS and
ARAMAS
5. Sahgha Life and its Organization in Early
Settlements
6. The Rise of Motiasteries (LENAS)
PART II: THE ASOKA-SATAVAHANA AGE
(250 BC-AD 100) AND ITS LEGACY
1. Monks of the 'Eastern Tract'
2. Asoka and Moggaliptitta Tissa
3. Early Buddhist Culture and its Trans-Vindhyan
• Expansion
4. An Aftermath of Sdtavdhana Culture—
NAcARfUNAKONDA
5. Cave-Monasteries (LENAS) of Western India
6. The BACH CAVES
PART III: IN THE GUPTA AGE (ad 300-550)
AND AFTER
1. Sahgha Life in Transition
2. The YIN AY A: its After-history
3. BHAKTI in Later Buddhism
4. Monasteries under the Cupta Kings
5. The Devastation
6 Survey of Monastic Remains of Northern India
7 The Maitraka Monasteries of Valabhi
PART IV: EMINENT MONK-SCHOLARS OF
INDIA
1. Sources of Information
2. The Hlnaydna {Theravdda) Tradition of Textual
Scholarship
3. The Mahdydna and its Scholastic Tradition
4. The ACARYAS and Mahdydnist Literature
Re-interpretation of the Hinaydna
5. The ACARYAS
6. Contemporaries and Near-contemporaries of
Hsuan-tsang and I-tsing
7. Indian Monk-scholars in China
APPENDIX—On I-tsing's 'Account of Fifty-one
Monks'
PART V: MONASTIC UNIVERSITIES
(ad 500-1200)
1. From 'Study for Faith' to 'Study for Knowledge'
2. Mahdvihdras that functioned as Universities
The University of Ndlandd
3. The Pala Establishments
APPENDIX I—On the Order of Succession and
approximate Regnal Years of kings of the Pdla
Dynasty
a. ODANTAPURA
h. VIKRAMA^ILA
APPENDIX II—Tibetan Cultural Missions to
India described in Brom-ton's 'Life of AtUa'
c. SOMAPURA
d. fAGADDALA