Nirvana
Concept, Imagery, Narrative
Seiten
2010
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-70834-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-70834-0 (ISBN)
This lucid introduction to nirvana approaches the well-known but often misunderstood Buddhist concept in a new way. Offering its own interpretation of key texts, it explores nirvana from both a literary and a philosophical perspective. Translations from a number of texts help students to access the source material.
The idea of nirvana (Pali nibbāna) is alluring but elusive for non-specialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new, accessible way - as a concept, as an image (metaphor), and as an element in the process of narrating both linear and cyclical time. Exploring nirvana from literary and philosophical perspectives, he argues that it has a specific role: to provide 'the sense of an ending' in both the systematic and the narrative thought of the Pali imaginaire. Translations from a number of texts, including some dealing with past and future Buddhas, enable the reader to access source material directly. This book will be essential reading for students of Buddhism, but will also have much to teach anyone concerned with Asia and its religions, or indeed anyone with an interest in the ideas of eternal life or timelessness.
The idea of nirvana (Pali nibbāna) is alluring but elusive for non-specialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new, accessible way - as a concept, as an image (metaphor), and as an element in the process of narrating both linear and cyclical time. Exploring nirvana from literary and philosophical perspectives, he argues that it has a specific role: to provide 'the sense of an ending' in both the systematic and the narrative thought of the Pali imaginaire. Translations from a number of texts, including some dealing with past and future Buddhas, enable the reader to access source material directly. This book will be essential reading for students of Buddhism, but will also have much to teach anyone concerned with Asia and its religions, or indeed anyone with an interest in the ideas of eternal life or timelessness.
Steven Collins is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Introduction; 1. Systematic and narrative thought: eternity and closure in structure and story; 2. Nirvana as a concept; 3. Nirvana as an image; 4. Nirvana, time and narrative; 5. Past and future Buddhas; Conclusion; Endnotes and bibliography.
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-70834-6 / 0521708346 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-70834-0 / 9780521708340 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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