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THEME Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings T FOUR )))
In this chapter we shall go on a long journey across athousand years to read about philosophers and theirattempts to understand the world they inhabited. We willalso see how their ideas were compiled as oral and writtentexts as well as expressed in architecture and are indicative of the enduring influence thesethinkers had on people. While we will be focusing onBuddhism, it is important to remember that this traditiondid not develop in isolation there were several othertraditions, each engaged in debates and dialogues withthe sources that historians use to reconstruct thisexciting world of ideas and Beliefs include buddhist , Jainaand Brahmanical texts, as well as a large and impressivebody of material remains including monuments andinscriptions.
How Buddhist texts were prepared and preserved The Buddha (and other teachers) taught orally – through discussion and debate. Men and women (perhaps children as well) attended these discourses and discussed what they heard. None of the Buddha’s speeches were written down during his lifetime. After his death (c. fifth-fourth century BCE) his
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