Cross Currents in Early Buddhism
Author: S. N. Dube
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the doctrinal controversies on Kath錫vatthu, Theravada canonical text.
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Cross Currents
Author: Cindy Scheopner
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1443864692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Philosophy begins with a question. The same question is often asked in different languages. Comparative philosophy is a project that engages thinkers from all areas of the world and approaches common problems from different perspectives. The conversations look at not only interactions between cultures, but also the relationships among humans, animals, and nature. But the many languages and unfamiliar terms can seem intimidating even to those with formal philosophical training. This book provides an approachable survey of current topics from some of the newest comparative philosophers as they enter the field. Arising out of a graduate student philosophy conference at the University of Hawai‘i, these selected papers were revised to respond to the suggestions and challenges presented during the conference. For this volume, foreign terms are translated, and introductions and editors’ notes give context to the individual chapters. Ignoring the traditional divisions of academic philosophy, this anthology focuses rather on the common search for answers by bringing thinkers from what are labeled “eastern” and “western” philosophy into conversation with one another as members of the global community.
Buddhist Spirituality (Vol. 1) Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, Early Chinese
Author: Takeuchi Yoshinori
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 1994-12-31
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9788120812550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The present volume is part of a series entitled World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, which seeks to present the spiritual wisdom of the human race in its historical unfolding. The volume presents the richness of the spiritual heritage of the human race and designed to reflect the autonomy of the traditional in its historical development.
Rebirth in Early Buddhism and Current Research
Author: Analayo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-04-23
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1614294623
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Join a rigorous scholar and Buddhist monk on a brisk tour of rebirth from ancient doctrine to contemporary debates. German Buddhist monk and university professor Bhikkhu Analayo had not given much attention to the topic of rebirth before some friends asked him to explore the treatment of the issue in early Buddhist texts. This succinct volume presents his findings, approaching the topic from four directions. The first chapter examines the doctrine of rebirth as it is presented in the earliest Buddhist sources and the way it relates to core doctrinal principles. The second chapter reviews debates about rebirth throughout Buddhist history and up to modern times, noting the role of confirmation bias in evaluation of evidence. Chapter 3 reviews the merits of current research on rebirth, including near-death experience, past-life regression, and children who recall previous lives. The chapter concludes with an examination of xenoglossy, the ability to speak languages one has not learned previously, and chapter 4 examines the particular case of Dhammaruwan, a Sri Lankan boy who chants Pali texts that he does not appear to have learned in his present life. Rebirth in Early Buddhism and Current Research brings together the many strands of the debate on rebirth in one place, making it both comprehensive and compact. It is not a polemic but an interrogation of the evidence, and it leaves readers to come to their own conclusions.
Buddhism and Peace
Author: Chanju Mun
Publisher: Blue Pine Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0977755312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Buddhism and Peace: Theory and Practice is among the most comprehensive books on this topic to date. Of the seven international seminars on Buddhism and Leadership for Peace, which have gained worldwide reputation in leading discussions on Buddhism and peace, the seventh seminar was the most successful. Thirty-one eminent scholars and activists among the more than forty participants presented papers on Buddhism and peace from the varying perspectives of their expertise. The two major Buddhist traditions, the Theravada and the Mahayana, are equally represented in this book. Likewise, a balance is struck in this book in terms of the number of articles dealing with theory and those concentrating on practice. The result is a collection of essential readings on the application of Buddhist wisdom for peace activists, scholars of religion, social scientists, and others in these troubled times, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies
Author: Karl H. Potter
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 9788120803084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This constitues the first volume of the series. It indicates the scope of the project and provides a list of sources which will be surveyed in the sebsequent volumes, as well as provide a guide to secondary literature for further study of Indian Philosophy. It lists in relative chronological order, Sanskrit and Tamil works. All known editions and translations into European languages are cited; where puplished versions of the text are not known a guide to the location of manuscripts of the work is provided.
Dukkha
Author: Madura Venkata Ram Kumar Ratnam
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9788171416530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book on Dukkha: Suffering in Early Buddhism gives an introduction to the concept of suffering, deals with the analysis of suffering in non-Buddhist system, examples the components of suffering in early Buddhism, identifies the origin of suffering and discusses about deliverance. Contents: Introduction, Duhkha in Indian Philosophy, Conception of Dukkha in Early Buddhism, Origin of Dukkha, Means of Deliverance from Dukkha, Nibbana, Conclusions.
The Buddhist Unconscious
Author: William S Waldron
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-08
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1134428863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study focuses on the development of the concept of unconscious mind within Indian Buddhist thought, presents issues of conception of mind and examines the doctrinal and philosophical arguments described and defended it.
The Theory of the Four Stages of Liberation in Pāli Literature
Author: Amrita Nanda
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 3031558731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism
Author: Hugh R. Nicholson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0190455349
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Both doctrines are maximally counterintuitive, in the sense that they violate the default expectations that human beings spontaneously make about the basic categories of things in the world. Nicholson argues that that these doctrines were each the products of intra- and inter-religious rivalry, in which one faction tried to get the upper hand over its ingroup rivals by maximizing the contrast with the dominant outgroup. Thus the "pro-Nicene" theologians of the fourth century developed the concept of Consubstantiality in the context of an effort to maximize, against their "Arian" rivals, the contrast with Christianity's archetypal "other," Judaism. Similarly, the No-self doctrine stemmed from an effort to maximize, against the so-called Personalist schools of Buddhism, the contrast with Brahmanical Hinduism with its doctrine of an unchanging and eternal self.
