| Kanchipuram was the home of the various religious movements of India. In south India Buddhism and Jainism reached their zenith here, Saivism and Vaishnavism had their beginnings at Kanchi. There are relics of every religious movement, which reached South India, Buddhist stupas and statues, Jaina shrines, Saivite and Vaishnavite temples. The various cultural streams met here-Aryan and Dravidian, Vedic and non- Vedic, Hindu, Buddhist and Jain. This paper portrays on development of Buddhism in Kachipuram, the Buddhist scholars who lived in Kanchipuram viz Boddhidharma, Buddadatta, Buddhagosha, Vajra bodhi, sidha Nagarjuna, Amaudha Buddhatiya and various Bhuddist sculptures. |