Bhante Anandajoti: The Background to the Buddha's Teaching
Channel: Dharma Records
Date: 05/01/2015

This video explains the background to the Lord Buddha's teaching, looking at it from various points-of-view: the geographical, social, political and religious; and also shows why the teaching was so successful in its first few centuries.

Part of the Geography of Buddhism series (see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9C5C92A751BA8599), it is based on a talk given at the Bodhi Lankarama Temple in Taiping, Malaysia on 27th Dec. 2014.