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The cult of nothingness : the philosophers and the Buddha / Roger-Pol Droit ; translated by David Streight and Pamela Vohson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Droit, Roger-Pol.
- Standardized Title:
- Culte du nʹeant. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism--Study and teaching--Europe--History--19th century.
- Buddhism.
- Nothing (Philosophy).
- Buddhism--Doctrines.
- Buddhism--Study and teaching.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Droit traces the history of the Western understanding of Buddhism following the late 18th-century beginnings of the translation of the Buddhist canon. He reveals how major 19th-century Western philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Schlegel, Hegel, and others in fact misinterpreted the Buddha's teaching of nirvana as a life-detesting and negative annihilation of the the individual.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807827762
- 0807854492
- OCLC:
- 51623087
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