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Author | : David Burton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351954342 |
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Buddhism is essentially a teaching about liberation - from suffering, ignorance, selfishness and continued rebirth. Knowledge of 'the way things really are' is thought by many Buddhists to be vital in bringing about this emancipation. This book is a philosophical study of the notion of liberating knowledge as it occurs in a range of Buddhist sources. Buddhism, Knowledge and Liberation assesses the common Buddhist idea that knowledge of the three characteristics of existence (impermanence, not-self and suffering) is the key to liberation. It argues that this claim must be seen in the context of the Buddhist path and training as a whole. Detailed attention is also given to anti-realist, sceptical and mystical strands within the Buddhist tradition, all of which make distinctive claims about liberating knowledge and the nature of reality. David Burton seeks to uncover various problematic assumptions which underpin the Buddhist worldview. Sensitive to the wide diversity of philosophical perspectives and interpretations that Buddhism has engendered, this book makes a serious contribution to critical and philosophically aware engagement with Buddhist thought. Written in an accessible style, it will be of value to those interested in Buddhist Studies and broader issues in comparative philosophy and religion.
Author | : Anne Carolyn Klein |
Publisher | : Shambhala |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1559397640 |
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Buddhist philosophy is concerned with defining and overcoming the limitations and errors of perception. To do this is essential to Buddhism's purpose of establishing a method for attaining liberation. Conceptual thought in this view can lead to a liberating understanding, a transformative religious experience. The author discusses the workings of both direct and conceptual cognition, drawing on a variety of Tibetan and Indian texts. The Gelukba interpretation of Dignaga and Dharmakirti is greatly at variance with virtually all other scholarship concerning these seminal Buddhist logicians.
Author | : Christopher S. Queen |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791428436 |
Download Engaged Buddhism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first comprehensive coverage of socially and politically engaged Buddhism in Asia, presenting the historical development and institutional forms of engaged Buddhism in the light of traditional Buddhist conceptions of morality, interdependence, and liberation.
Author | : Kathryn R. Blackstone |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136805761 |
Download Women in the Footsteps of the Buddha Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A detailed exploration of the quest for liberation on the part of the early bhikkunis. Only text in the Buddhist tradition of known female authorship. Important to anyone investigating women's own perspective on their religion. Also provides a clear statement about how renunciants understand nibbana.
Author | : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195133153 |
Download The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, Or, The Method of Realizing Nirvāṇa Through Knowing the Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
To introduce this great published work on the Eastern, yoga-inspired method of attaining enlightenment, Evans-Wentz presents 100 pages of explanatory notes. Psychoanalyst C.G. Jung offers commentary on the differences between Eastern and Western thought, and Donald S. Lopez, Jr., writes the Foreword. 9 halftones.
Author | : Anne Carolyn Klein |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1559391146 |
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Buddhist philosophy is concerned with defining and overcoming the limitations and errors of perception. To do this is essential to Buddhism's purpose of establishing a method for attaining liberation. Conceptual thought in this view can lead to a liberating understanding, a transformative religious experience. The author discusses the workings of both direct and conceptual cognition, drawing on a variety of Tibetan and Indian texts. The Gelukba interpretation of Dignaga and Dharmakirti is greatly at variance with virtually all other scholarship concerning these seminal Buddhist logicians.
Author | : Robert E. Buswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Apocryphal books (Tripi#Htaka) |
ISBN | : |
Download Paths to Liberation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : U Pandita |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-01-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0861718801 |
Download In This Very Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Burmese meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita shows us that freedom is as immediate as breathing, as fundamental as a footstep. In this book he describes the path of the Buddha and calls all of us to that heroic journey of liberation. Enlivened by numerous case histories and anecdotes, In This Very Life is a matchless guide to the inner territory of meditation - as described by the Buddha.
Author | : Chögyam Trungpa |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1590308026 |
Download The Path of Individual Liberation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Second volume of a compilation of Ch'ogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Vajradhatu Seminary teachings in three volumes.
Author | : Johannes Bronkhorst |
Publisher | : UniversityMedia |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 3906000249 |
Download Absorption Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This book argues for the central role played by absorption in the functioning of the human mind. The importance of absorption makes itself felt in different ways; the two studies combined in this book concentrate on two of them. The first study argues that, largely as a result of language acquisition, humans have two levels of cognition, which in normal circumstances are simultaneously active. Mental absorption is a (or the) means to circumvent some, perhaps all, of the associations that characterize one of these two levels, resulting in what is sometimes referred to as mystical experience, but which is not confined to mysticism and plays a role in various "religious" phenomena, and elsewhere. The second study takes as point of departure some puzzling statements in the early Buddhist canon that raises serious questions of a psychological nature. An essential element in the psychological theory proposed is the observation that mental absorption is a source of pleasure. Since the human mind is in large part guided by pleasure, which it seeks to repeat, states of absorption leave memory traces that subsequently direct the mind. However, these memory traces do not "recall" the states of absorption themselves, but rather the objects or circumstances that accompanied them. The resulting activity of the mind differs in this way from person to person, and can pursue wildly diverging goals."--Publisher description.