Selfless persons : imagery and thought in Theravāda Buddhism
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Bibliographic Information
Selfless persons : imagery and thought in Theravāda Buddhism
Cambridge University Press, 1982
- est.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
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  France
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Note
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Oxford University, 1979) under title: Personal continuity in Theravāda Buddhism
Bibliography: p. 310-317
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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