What the Buddha Thought

Name: What the Buddha Thought
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ISBN: 9781845536145

ISBN-10: 1845536142

ISBN-13: 9781845536145

Edition: 2009

Authors: Richard F. Gombrich

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This book argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time. While the book is intended to serve as an introduction to the Buddhas thought, and hence even to Buddhism itself, it also has larger aims: it argues that we can know far more about the Buddha than it is fashionable among scholars to admit, and that his thought has a greater coherence than is usually recognised. It contains much new material. Interpreters both ancient and modern have taken little account of the historical context of the Buddhas teachings; but relating them to early brahminical texts, and also to ancient Jainism, gives a much richer picture of his meaning, especially when his…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Limited
Publication date: 1/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Background Information


Abbreviations



Introduction



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 Buddha'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?


Appendix: The Buddha's Appropriation of Four (or Five?) Brahminical Terms


Notes


Bibliography


Index