CONTENTS Page 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 - INDEX 563 - 596.