What the Buddha thought
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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London ; Oakville, CT :
Equinox Pub.,
2009.
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| Serier: | Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs.
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| Online adgang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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?