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PREFACE k

INTRODUCTION xi

SECTION I HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

1. HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN TAMIL NADU 3-30 G.V.Saroja

2. BUDDHISM IN TAMIL NADU DURING THE KALABHRA PERIOD 31 - 39 V. BalambaJ

3. HISTORY OF TAMIL BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA 41 - 67 A. Veluppillai

4. BUDDHISM IN TAMIL NADU : PATTERNS of PATRONAGE 69 - 96 R. Champakalakshmi

i SECTION n BUDDHIST CENTRES

5. BUDDHIST CENTRES IN TAMIL NADU 99 - 107 Natana Kasinathan

6. BUDDHA AKARAM 109 - 118 Vanniya Adikalar

7. THE POTIYIL MOUNTAIN IN TAMIL NADU AND THE ORIGIN OF THE AVALOKITESVARA CULT 119 - 141 Shu Hikosaka SECTION HI INSCRIPTION, SCULPTURE ART AND ARCHITECTURE Page

8. IDENTIFICATION OF 'KAKAMDI1 IN BHARHUT INSCRIPTIONS 145 - 148 Iravatham Mahadevan

9. BUDDHIST ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN TAMIL NADU 149 - 156 V.N. Srinivasa Desikan

10. THE BUDDHIST IMAGES AS CONCEIVED BY THE TAMIL SCULPTOR 157 - 169 V.GanapatiSthapati

SECTION IV MANIMEKALAI

11. MANIMEKALAI : TAMIL BUDDHIST EPIC 173 - 196 J. Parthasarathi

12. THE RENUNCIATION OF MANIMEKALAI 197 - 210 Rangarajan Vijayalakshmy

13. MANIMEKALAI : HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND INDIGENIZATION OF BUDDHISM 211 266 A. Veluppillai

14. PROSODIC AND POETICAL ANALYSIS OF MA NIMEKALAI 267 - 278 T. Wignesan

15. THEORY OK ANUMANA IN MANIMEKALAI 279 - 300 S. Krishna Raja

16. COSMOLOGY AS RHETORIC 301 - 328 P. Rich man SEcrroN V LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY Page

17. CONTRIBUTION OF BUDDHISM TO TAMIL LANGUAGE 331 - 338 N. Deivasundaram and S. Kapilan

18. VfRAcdLtiYAM:-THE EARLIEST CONTRASTIVE-TRANSFER GRAMMAR IN TAMIL 339 - 344 M. Shanmugam Pillai

19. THE CULT OF BODHISATTVAS IN THE BUDDHIST TAMIL LITERATURE 345 - 390 S.N. Kandaswamy

20. BUDDHISM IN NANACAMPANTAR'S TEVARAM 391 - 400 P. Marudanayagam

21. BUDDHIST THEMES IN MODERN TAMIL WRITINGS 401 - 422 A. Mariappan

22, POLEMICS OF NitAKECi AND CITTIYAR AGAINST THE BUDDHIST CONCEPT OF ANATMA 423 - 448 Kalpakam Sankaranaray an

SECTION VI WORKS ON TAMIL BUDDHISM IN OTHER LANGUAGES

23. BUDDHIST TEXTS IN SANSKRIT BY TAMIL MONKS 451 - 462 S. S. Janaki

24. THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE LANKA VATARAMAHAYANASUTRA 463 - 482 Gishin Tokiwa SECTION VII RITUAL, IMPACT AND CONTEMPORARY POSITION Page

25. BUDDHIST GODDESSES OF TAMIL NADU IN FORM AND FAITH 485 - 502 S.P. Sabarathinam

'26. \M?fKCXOvDHAMMAPADAOnTlkUKKURAL 503 - 520 G. Sundaramoorthy

27. TANTRIC BUDDHISM IN RELATION TO SOUTH INDIA 521 - 528 Masahide Mori

28. RKVIVAL OF TAMIL BUDDHISM: A HISTORICAL SURVEY 529 - 542 S. Perumal

A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 545 - . 562

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