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Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism

Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism

Name: Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Steven Collins
ISBN: 9780521240819

Steven Collins

24/06/1982
Cambridge University Press

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Couverture de Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism par Steven Collins

Résumé

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.