What the Buddha thought /

In What the Buddha Thought, Richard Gombrich argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time. Intended to serve as an introduction to the Buddha's thought, and hence even to Buddhism itself, the book also has larger aims: it argues that we can know far mor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gombrich, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1937-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2009.
Colección:Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs.
Temas:
Gautama Buddha > Teachings.
Gautama Buddha.
Buddha.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Teachings.
Lehre
Doktrin
Karma
Lehre.
Buddhismus.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Bddha'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?

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