Early Buddhism and Buddhist Archaeological Sites in Andhra South India

The article aims to study historical of Buddhist in Andhra South India and the remembering the Buddhist monument sites, especially the crisis and development of Buddhist Sangha in the early period. Buddhism, which flourished in South India from the 3rd century CE, began to decline gradually from about the 7th century for several reasons. In Andhra South India was pitch location of Buddhist flourished seeing various Buddhist monument ruins found. The history base on the history of Buddhism specifically the Theravada Buddhist religious traditions of Sri Lanka and the ancestors of the Telugu people of Andhra and the evidences of Chinese monk names Hsűan-tsang was cites during the seventh century CE and the Pali Suttanipāta of Khuddhaka Nikāya was seen the Andhra features. The Buddhist school was raised here such as Theravadin, Sthāviravādin, Madhyamaka, Mahāsāṃghika was the origin or proto-Mahayana. And other hand in significant the grates sutras in Mahayana are Prajñāpāramitā and tathāgatagarbha appeared in Andhra with the Buddhist monument over 100 at that time. The crisis of vinaya and dharma argues and considers in the Sangha on issues as ten points of controversial behavior and nirvana. Today the Buddhist monument sites illustrate such as Nagarjunakonda, Amaravti Chatiya, Guntupalli, Adurru, Bavikonda, Bojjanakonda, Thotlakonda and Salihundam.