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What the Buddha thought
- Title
- What the Buddha thought / Richard Gombrich.
- Author
- Gombrich, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1937-
- Publication
- London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 09-4551 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 240 p.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- More about karma, and its social context -- The antecedents of the karma doctrine in Brahminism -- Jain antecedents -- What did the Buddha mean by "no soul"? -- The Buddha's positive values: love and compassion -- Assessing the evidence -- Everything is burning: the centrality of fire in the Bddha's thought -- Causation and non-random process -- Cognition; language; nirvana -- The Buddha's pragmatism and intellectual style -- The Buddha as satirist; brahmin terms as social metaphors -- Is this book to be believed?
- Call Number
- JFE 09-4551
- ISBN
- 9781845536121 (hb)
- 1845536126 (hb)
- 9781845536145 (pb)
- 1845536142 (pb)
- LCCN
- 2008049777
- OCLC
- 276274638
- Author
- Gombrich, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1937-
- Title
- What the Buddha thought / Richard Gombrich.
- Imprint
- London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2009.
- Series
- Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-4551