Author: Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abhidharma
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Summary of the author's readership lectures 1936/37, at the Patna University.

Author: Lama Anagarika Govinda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Author: Noa Ronkin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134283121
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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This book provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the systematic of the Pali Abhidhamma movement.

Author: Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abhidharma
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Author: Anagarika B. Govinda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788170811152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Edwina Pio
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170172468
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Paul R. Fleischman
Publisher: Pariyatti Publishing
ISBN: 1928706223
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, this thought-provoking essay explores the Buddha's teaching to find one prescription: not war, not pacifism but nonviolence.

Author: Amber Carpenter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317547764
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of Buddhist ethics that we call today moral psychology. Throughout, this book follows three key themes that both tie the tradition together and are the focus for most critical dialogue: the idea of anatman or no-self, the appearance/reality distinction and the moral aim, or ideal. Indian Buddhist philosophy is shown to be a remarkably rich tradition that deserves much wider engagement from European philosophy. Carpenter shows that while we should recognise the differences and distances between Indian and European philosophy, its driving questions and key conceptions, we must resist the temptation to find in Indian Buddhist philosophy, some Other, something foreign, self-contained and quite detached from anything familiar. Indian Buddhism is shown to be a way of looking at the world that shares many of the features of European philosophy and considers themes central to philosophy understood in the European tradition.

Author: Eviatar Shulman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110706239X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Shulman traces the development of the four noble truths, which in fact originated as observations to be cultivated during meditation.

Author: Mathieu Boisvert
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889208786
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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If Buddhism denies a permanent self, how does it perceive identity? According to Buddhist texts, the entire universe, including the individual, is made up of different phenomena, which Buddhism classifies into different categories: what we conventionally call a “person” can be understood in terms of five aggregates, the sum of which must not be taken for a permanent entity, since beings are nothing but an amalgam of ever-changing phenomena. Although the aggregates are only a “convenient fiction,” the Buddha nevertheless made frequent use of the aggregate scheme when asked to explain the elements at work in the individual. In this study Mathieu Boisvert presents a detailed analysis of the five aggregates (pañcakkhandhā) and establishes how the Theravda tradition views their interaction. He clarifies the fundamentals of Buddhist psychology by providing a rigorous examination of the nature and interrelation of each of the aggregates and by establishing, for the first time, how the function of each of these aggregates chains beings to the cycle of birth, death and rebirth — the theory of dependent origination (paticcasamuppāda). Boisvert contends that without a thorough understanding of the five aggregates, we cannot grasp the liberation process at work within the individual, who is, after all, simply an amalgam of the five aggregates. The Five Aggregates represents an important and original contribution to Buddhist studies and will be of great interest to all scholars and students of Buddhism.