Pain and Its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
by Carol Anderson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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ABSTRACT
Demonstrates how the four noble truths are used thorughout the Pali canon as a symbol of Buddha's enlightenment and as a doctrine within a larger network of Buddha's teachings. Their unique nature rests in their function as a proposition and as a symbol in the Theravada canon.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter|27 pages
Introduction: A Historical Context for the Four Noble Truths
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Chapter 1|27 pages
Cultivating Religious Experiences: Doctrine and Diṭṭhi
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Chapter 2|30 pages
Stories and Symbols of the Buddha's Enlightenment
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Chapter 3|23 pages
Analyzing the Four Noble Truths
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Chapter 4|23 pages
Abhidhamma Analysis of the Four Noble Truths
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Chapter 5|37 pages
The Four Noble Truths and the Path
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Chapter 6|44 pages
Studies of the Four Noble Truths in Europe and the United States
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Chapter 7|21 pages
Symbols, Propositions and Religious Experiences
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- Introduction: A Historical Context for the Four Noble Truths
- Chapter 1|Cultivating Religious Experiences: Doctrine and Diṭṭhi
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Editorial Reviews
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'The book's contribution to our knowledge about the four truths may lie in the author's bringig together some new propositions of recent researches which claim to revise views about certain topics such as the language of the canon, the dating of the Buddha's life, the construction of his biographies, the shaping of the Tipitaka and its formulations, or the disparity between the doctrine ant the practice in Buddhist countries. useful to read as a stimulant' - Karel Werner, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (October 11, 2013)
Publication date : October 11, 2013
Language : English
File size : 1492 KB
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Print length : 399 pages
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jonnos
3.0 out of 5 stars A mixed bag
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2014
This book is a mixed bag. It concentrates on the Four Noble Truths in the suttas and Abhidhamma. It’s nice to have such a study on the Truths, even if it’s hard to find any original academic contribution to Buddhist studies here. It contains quite a bit of discussion of the early Western scholarly view of Buddhism, but little about the last hundred years or so. To me, the most worthwhile part was the discussion based on K.R. Norman’s linguistic study of the various formulations of the Four Truths in the suttas, and how they may have developed over time. It shows that the formulation as Noble Truths probably didn’t exist at the time of the Buddha. The book has its limits, but can be useful to some.
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