Sociology of Indian Buddhism
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The aim of this appear is to clarify how Buddhism can take its specific position
among other counterpart religions and obtain the faith of the mass from various social classes in
India and find out its missionary method will be significantly explored in terms of sociological
aspect together with a few research questions: “why can Buddhism stand up among diverse
religions and multicultural societies in India and what is social integration between Buddhism
and society in India?”. In this respect, this study will not focus on society, signifi cance of
society, the important role of society, and the impact of society on Buddhism at all and not talk
about how social approval is important for a religion to survive for a long time but will
make fully attention only on the Buddhist social concerns, functions, its sociological theory,
movement, and social interacting between Bhikkhu order (samgha) and society in India.
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