What the Buddha thought [electronic resource] / Richard Gombrich.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographsPublication details: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2009.Description: xv, 240 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 294.3/63 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ915 .G66 2009eb
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Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-232) and index.

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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