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Title: SELFLESS PERSONS
IMAGERY AND THOUGHT IN THERAVADA BUDDHISM
By: Steven Collins
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £135.00


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ISBN 10: 0511621493
ISBN 13: 9780511621499
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 18 December, 2009
Description: This book explains anatta through cultural, historical and Theravada Buddhist tradition and context.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Returns: Non-returnable
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