Selfless Persons

Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism

Steven Collins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

1990
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-39726-1 (ISBN)

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This book seeks to explain carefully and sympathetically the Buddhist doctrine of anatta ('not-self'), which denies the existence of any enduring essence in man. The author relates this doctrine to its cultural and historical context as well as the Theravada Buddhist tradition.

This book seeks to explain carefully and sympathetically the Buddhist doctrine of anatta ('not-self'), which denies the existence of any self, soul or enduring essence in man. The author relates this doctrine to its cultural and historical context, particularly to its Brahmanical background, and shows how the Theravada Buddhist tradition has constructed a philosophical and psychological account of personal identity and continuity on the apparently impossible basis of the denial of self.

Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Cultural and Social Setting of Buddhist Thought: 1. The origins of rebirth; 2. Varieties of Buddhist discourse; Part II. The Doctrine of Not-Slef: 3. The denial of self as 'right view'; 4. Views, attachment, and 'emptiness'; Part III. Personality and Rebirth: 5. The individual of 'conventional truth'; 6. 'Neither the same nor different'; Part IV. Continuity: 7. Conditioning and consciousness; 8. Momentariness and the bhavanga-mind; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary and index of Pali and Sanskrit terms; General index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.11.1990
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	455 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-521-39726-X / 052139726X
ISBN-13	978-0-521-39726-1 / 9780521397261
Zustand	Neuware