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Steven Collins - Selfless Persons, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

Selfless Persons

Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism

Av Steven Collins

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Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1990-11-29
  • Mått: 153 x 229 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 455 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521397261
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'Steven Collins has written an admirable and fascinating book. It consists largely in the detailed discussion of certain Buddhist and, in particular, Theravada sacred texts and commentaries, and will doubtless become a necessary work for scholars working on the Buddhist doctrine of ANATTA (Sanskrit ANATMAN), or 'not-self', according to which the idea that we possess persisting (or permanent) souls or selves must be dismissed as, ultimately, total illusion. But it succeeds in its avowed aim of being a book entirely accessible to non-specialists, and will be of interest not only to students of the human sciences, but also to those who are students of themselves for other than, or at least for more than, academic reasons.' The Times Literary Supplement

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