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The Early Buddhist Theory of Man Perfected
Author: Isaline Blew Horner
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781258930424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
The Early Buddhist Theory of Man Perfected
The Early Buddhist Theory of Man Perfected
The Early Buddhist Theory of Man Perfected
The Early Buddhist Theory of Man Perfected: a Study of the Arahm Concept and of the Implications of the Aim to Perfection in Religious Life, Traced in Early Canonical and Post-canonical Pali Literature: with Notes, References of Names,subjects, and Pali and Sanskrit Words
Early Buddhist Discourses
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Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2006-03-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1603840028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twenty discourses from the Pali Canon--including those most essential to the study and teaching of early Buddhism--are provided in fresh translations, accompanied by introductions that highlight the main themes and set the ideas presented in the context of wider philosophical and religious issues. Taken together, these fascinating works give an account of Buddhist teachings directly from the earliest primary sources. In his General Introduction, John J. Holder discusses the structure and language of the Pali Canon--its importance within the Buddhist tradition and the historical context in which it developed--and gives an overview of the basic doctrines of early Buddhism.
The Buddhist Theory of Self-Cognition
Author: Zhihua Yao
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-09-10
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1134287453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This highly original work explores the concept of self-awareness or self-consciousness in Buddhist thought. Its central thesis is that the Buddhist theory of self-cognition originated in a soteriological discussion of omniscience among the Mahasamghikas, and then evolved into a topic of epistemological inquiry among the Yogacarins. To illustrate this central theme, this book explores a large body of primary sources in Chinese, Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan, most of which are presented to an English readership for the first time. It makes available important resources for the study of the Buddhist philosophy of mind.
Buddhist Images of Human Perfection
Author: Nathan Katz
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9788120806474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All forms of Buddhism--The Theravada, the Mahayana and the Vajrayana--affirm the perfectability of the person, and one finds this notion of perfection embodied in three images; the arahant, the bodhisattva and the mahasiddha. Reader also finds, in scholarly treatments of Buddhism, much made of the perceived differences among these three `vehicles` (yana). By close textual analysis as well as by extensive field work, Katz criticizes this emphasis on difference and prefers to treat Buddhism as a whole, a position he finds in accord with the teachings of both Buddhists and Buddhist texts. By a close examination of these three images of human perfection, bridges among the Theravada, the Mahayana and the Vajrayana are built and continuities within Buddhism are explored. This comparison involves pioneering discussions of Buddhist philosophy of language and hermeneutics, which are facilitated by Katz`s familiarity with Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist texts as well as his sympathetic involvement with the living Buddhist tradition.
Early Buddhist Metaphysics
Author: Noa Ronkin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-02-28
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1134283121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the systematic of the Pali Abhidhamma movement.
