What the Buddha thought

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Autor principal: Gombrich, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1937-
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2009.
Col·lecció:Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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?