Early Buddhist Metaphysics

Author : Noa Ronkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134283121
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Buddhist Metaphysics written by Noa Ronkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the systematic of the Pali Abhidhamma movement.

Author : K N Jayatilleke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134542879
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge written by K N Jayatilleke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this volume, an accomplished philologist, historian and philosopher, analyzes the relevant earlier and later texts and traces the epistemological foundations of Pali canonical thought from the Vedic period onwards. Originally published in 1963, it sheds new light on later developments and elucidates from the Indian point of view some of the basic problems of the conflict between metaphysics and logical and linguistic analysis.

Author : David J. Kalupahana
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120832800
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Early Buddhism written by David J. Kalupahana and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the centuries, moral philosophers, both Eastern and Western, considered a permanent and eternal law a necessary requirement for the formulation of a moral principle. If such a law was not empirically given, it had to be determined through reason. In contrast, early Buddhism presented a radical theory of impermanence. Interpreters of early Buddhism have been unable to abandon the presupposition of permanence, however, and hence have persisted in viewing nirvana or freedom as a permanent and eternal state to be contrasted with the impermanent world of sensory experience and bondage. Ethics in Early Buddhism is David J. Kalupahana's balanced and brilliantly concise attempt to place the early Buddhist descriptions of the world of experience, the state of freedom, and the moral principle leading to such freedom within the framework of impermanence.

Author : Graham Priest
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198758715
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Corner of Four written by Graham Priest and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Priest presents an exploration of the development of Buddhist metaphysics, which is viewed through the lens of the catuṣkotị. In its earliest and simplest form, this is a logical/ metaphysical principle which says that every claim is true, false, both, or neither; but Priest shows how the principle itself evolves, assuming new forms, as the metaphysics develops, and how the resources of non-classical logic allow us to understand it.All matters are explained with the aim of accessibility to those with no knowledge of Buddhist philosophy or contemporary non-classical logic.

Author : Amber Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317547764
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Buddhist Philosophy written by Amber Carpenter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of Buddhist ethics that we call today moral psychology. Throughout, this book follows three key themes that both tie the tradition together and are the focus for most critical dialogue: the idea of anatman or no-self, the appearance/reality distinction and the moral aim, or ideal. Indian Buddhist philosophy is shown to be a remarkably rich tradition that deserves much wider engagement from European philosophy. Carpenter shows that while we should recognise the differences and distances between Indian and European philosophy, its driving questions and key conceptions, we must resist the temptation to find in Indian Buddhist philosophy, some Other, something foreign, self-contained and quite detached from anything familiar. Indian Buddhism is shown to be a way of looking at the world that shares many of the features of European philosophy and considers themes central to philosophy understood in the European tradition.

Author : Pratap Chandra
Publisher : Bombay : Somaiya Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics of Perpetual Change written by Pratap Chandra and published by Bombay : Somaiya Publications. This book was released on 1978 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eviatar Shulman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139917269
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Buddha written by Eviatar Shulman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cornerstone of Buddhist philosophy, the doctrine of the four noble truths maintains that life is replete with suffering, desire is the cause of suffering, nirvana is the end of suffering, and the way to nirvana is the eightfold noble path. Although the attribution of this seminal doctrine to the historical Buddha is ubiquitous, Rethinking the Buddha demonstrates through a careful examination of early Buddhist texts that he did not envision them in this way. Shulman traces the development of what we now call the four noble truths, which in fact originated as observations to be cultivated during deep meditation. The early texts reveal that other central Buddhist doctrines, such as dependent-origination and selflessness, similarly derived from meditative observations. This book challenges the conventional view that the Buddha's teachings represent universal themes of human existence, allowing for a fresh, compelling explanation of the Buddhist theory of liberation.

Author : Isaline Blew Horner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Buddhist Theory of Man Perfected written by Isaline Blew Horner and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David J. Kalupahana
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824803926
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Philosophy written by David J. Kalupahana and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1984-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to Buddhism examines its basic philosophical teachings and historical development, setting forth complex and significant ideas in a straightforward and simple style that is easily accessible to the student. The author's orientation is philosophical, rather than religious or sociological. This approach is both the uniqueness and the strength of the work.Part I outlines the historical background out of which Buddhism arose and emphasizes the teachings of early Buddhism. Part II examines developments in the history of Buddhist thought and the emergence of the various schools of Buddhism.

Author : Nyanaponika
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861711351
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abhidhamma Studies written by Nyanaponika and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abhidhamma expounds a revolutionary system of philosophical psychology rooted in the twin Buddhist insights of selflessness and dependent origination. In keeping with the liberative thrust of early Buddhism, this system organizes the entire spectrum of human consciousness around the two poles of Buddhist doctrine?bondage and liberation?the starting point and the final goal. It thereby maps out, with remarkable rigor and precision, the inner landscape of the mind to be crossed through the practical work of Buddhist meditation. In this book of groundbreaking essays, Venerable Nyanaponika Thera, one of our age's foremost exponents of Theravada Buddhism, penetrates the Abhidhamma to make its principles intelligible to the thoughtful reader of today. Innovative and rich in insights, this book does not merely open up new avenues in the academic study of early Buddhism. By treating the Abhidhamma as a fountainhead of inspiration for philosophical and psychological inquiry, it demonstrates the continuing relevance of Buddhist thought to our most astute contemporary efforts to understand the elusive yet so intimate nature of the mind.