What the Buddha thought
Richard F. Gombrich
Bok · Engelsk · 2009
| Utgitt | Sheffield Bristol, Connecticut : Equinox , 2009
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| Omfang | xv, 240 s.
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| Opplysninger | More about karma, and its social context -- The antecedents of the karma doctrine in Brahminism -- Jain antecedents -- What did the Buddha mean by "no soul"? -- The Buddha's positive values: love and compassion -- Assessing the evidence -- Everything is burning: the centrality of fire in the Bddha's thought -- Causation and non-random process -- Cognition; language; nirvana -- The Buddha's pragmatism and intellectual style -- The Buddha as satirist; brahmin terms as social metaphors -- Is this book to be believed?
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| ISBN | 9781845536121. - 9781845536145
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