What the Buddha thought [electronic resource] /
Richard Gombrich.
- London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2009.
- xv, 240 p.
- Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs .
- Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs. .
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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