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What the Buddha thought / Richard Gombrich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gombrich, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1937-
- Series:
- Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs.
- Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism.
- Religion.
- Gautama Buddha--Teachings.
- Gautama Buddha.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time.
- Contents:
- 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 Buddha'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?
- Everything is burning: the centrality of fire in the Bddha's thought
- The Buddha as satirist; brahmin terms as social metaphors
- Notes:
- EBL Purchase.
- Non-linear Access.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-84553-613-4
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