Buddhism in Southeast Asia

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Southeast asia consists of two geographic regions: the Asian mainland, and island arcs and archipelagoes to the east and southeast. The mainland section consits of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.The maritime section consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore.Buddhism is the main religion in Southeast Asia. Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia,Laos,Myanmar are Buddhist countries.This book has some intial chapters about the Buddhism namely, Southeast Asia: An Introduction,Buddhism in Southeast Asia etc.This book further goes to trace Buddhism in each of the Southeast Asian countries.How Buddhism has transformed the society and the customs and rituals of the Buddhist society has been given in this book.This book concludes with chapters on Buddhism in the Philippines and Singapore and Buddhism in the West.

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Arvind Kumar Singh did his M.A., M. Phil and PhD. in Buddhist Studies from Delhi University. Presently he is teaching M.A. and M. Phil students at the department of buddhist studies, University of Delhi from where he has obtained all his higher degrees. Along with the teaching assignment, he is also involved in other departmental activities like assisting the editors of the departmental journal named Buddhist Studies and due to his hard work and committment towards this, the department has been able to publish three departmental journals and two more journals are about to be published in a short span of time. He has written a book named A Textbook of the history of Theravada buddhism (2007). He has also compiled a book named Researchers in Buddhist Studies: A Descriptive Bibliography. He has presented many research articles at the national and international conferences and few of them have been published in different journals of repute.