Author: Rhys DavidsPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120840364
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Expositor
Author: Rhys DavidsPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120840364
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Expositor (Atthasālinī)
Author: BuddhaghosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tipiṭaka
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Expositor (Atthasālinī)
Author: BuddhaghosaThe Expositor (Atthasālinī)
Author: BuddhaghosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tipiṭaka
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Five Aggregates
Author: Mathieu BoisvertPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889202575
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
According to Buddhist texts, the entire universe, including the individual, is made up of various phenomena, which Buddhism classifies into different categories. What we conventionally call a 'person' can be understood in terms of the five aggregates, the sum of which must not be taken for a permanent entity, since beings are nothing but an ......
Religion and Practical Reason
Author: Frank E. ReynoldsPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791422182
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This book contains programmatic essays that focus on broad-ranging proposals for re-envisioning a discipline of comparative philosophy of religions. It also contains a number of case studies focussing on the interpretation of particular religio-historical data from comparatively oriented philosophical perspectives.
Echoes from an Empty Sky
Author: John B. BuescherPublisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1559392207
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The important Buddhist doctrine of the two truths—conventional truths and ultimate truths—is the subject of this book. It examines how the doctrine evolved within early Buddhism from efforts to make sense of contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. The two truths, however, came to refer not primarily to statements or language, but to the realities to which statements or language referred. As such, the doctrine of the two truths became one through which Buddhist philosophers focused their efforts to elaborate an abhidharma, a higher teaching which allowed them to explain how the mind apprehends and misapprehends the world, how it attaches itself to objects that do not exist in and of themselves, thereby creating suffering. In effect, the doctrine then evolved into a distinction between different sorts of objects rather than a distinction between different sorts of statements. The doctrine of the truths understood in this way played a key role in the articulation of the Mahayana by its followers in distinguishing it from what they called Hinayana, especially in defining the central ideas of selflessness and emptiness. Unlike prior books on this topic which concentrate on the doctrine within the context of the Mahayana, Buescher's examines it within the context of the Hinayana. Tibetan Buddhist syntheses of Buddhist doctrine provide a fascinating perspective from which to compare the positions of the major Indian schools. Such works, however, often lack the historical perspective from which to discern the development of these positions.
Text Series
Author: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XXIII
Author: Hellmuth HeckerPublisher: Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN: 955240391X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book contains sixteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Wheel Publication 345: Maha Kassapa—Hellmuth Hecker 346–48: Buddhist Perspectives on the Ecocrisis—Klas Sandell 349–50: Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns—Susan Elbaum Jootla 351–53: The Jhanas—Henepola Gunaratana Mahathera 354–56: Buddhist Stories—Eugene Watson Burlingame 357–59: A Taste of Freedom—Ajahn Chah 360–61: Matrceta’s Hymn to the Buddha—S. Dhammika
Sacred Rights
Author: Daniel C. MaguirePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195160017
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contains twelve essays in which religious scholars examine the issues of contraception and abortion as seen from various faith traditions, and present alternative interpretations of restrictive views on family planning.