Selfless persons: imagery and thought in Therav da Buddhism / Steven Collins
1982, 1st Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #353961
ISBN: 0521240816
Physical description: ix, 323 pages. Contents: Machine derived contents note: 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-Self: 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. Subjects: Buddhism Psychology. Hinayana Buddhism Doctrines.
Therav da Buddhism Philosophy.
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