[PDF] Self And Non Self In Early Buddhism eBook

Author : Joaquín Pérez-Remón
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110804166

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Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Author : Peter Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136783296

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This careful analysis of early Buddhist thought opens out a perspective in which no permanent Self is accepted, but a rich analysis of changing and potent mental processes is developed. It explores issues relating to the not-Self teaching: self-development, moral responsibility, the between-lives period, and the 'undetermined questions' on the world, on the 'life principle' and on the liberated one after death. It examines the 'person' as a flowing continuity centred on consciousness or discernment (vinnana) configured in changing minds-sets (cittas). The resting state of this is seen as 'brightly shining' - like the 'Buddha nature' of Mahayana thought - so as to represent the potential for Nirvana. Nirvana is then shown to be a state in which consciousness transcends all objects, and thus participates in a timeless, unconditioned realm.

Author : Sue Hamilton-Blyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136843000

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New interpretations of the central teachings of early Buddhism, mainly the relationship between identity and perception in early Buddhism.

Author : Mun-keat Choong
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9788120816497

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This book investingates the teachings of emptiness in early Buddhism, as recorded in the Pali and Chinese version of the early Buddhist canon. In general, the findig is that these two version,although differently worded, record in common that the teaching of the historical Buddha as connected with emptiness. The general reader, with little or no prior knowledge of Buddhism, can discover in this book how early Buddhism provides a vision and a method to help in overcoming the ills of the mind.

Author : Evan Thompson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0300226551

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"A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world's most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and science. Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, and celebrities promoting the notion that Buddhism is spirituality for the rational; compatible with cutting-edge science; indeed, "a science of the mind." In this provocative book, Evan Thompson argues that this representation of Buddhism is false. In lucid and entertaining prose, Thompson dives deep into both Western and Buddhist philosophy to explain how the goals of science and religion are fundamentally different. Efforts to seek their unification are wrongheaded and promote mistaken ideas of both. He suggests cosmopolitanism instead, a worldview with deep roots in both Eastern and Western traditions. Smart, sympathetic, and intellectually ambitious, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Buddhism's place in our world today."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Steven Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521397261

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This book seeks to explain carefully and sympathetically the Buddhist doctrine of anatta ('not-self'), which denies the existence of any self, soul or enduring essence in human beings. The author relates this doctrine to its cultural and historical context, particularly to its Brahmanical background, and shows how the Theravada Buddhist tradition has constructed a philosophical and psychological account of personal identity and continuity on the apparently impossible basis of the denial of self.