DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Buddhist Thought in India

Three Phases of Buddhist Philosophy

Edward Conze author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:12th Feb '08

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Buddhist Thought in India cover

Originally published in 1962.

This book discusses and interprets the main themes of Buddhist thought in India and is divided into three parts:

  1. Archaic Buddhism: Tacit assumptions, the problem of "original Buddhism", the three marks and the perverted views, the five cardinal virtues, the cultivation of the social emotions, Dharma and dharmas, Skandhas, sense-fields and elements.
  2. The Sthaviras: the eighteen schools, doctrinal disputes, the unconditioned and the process of salvation, some Abhidharma problems.
  3. The Mahayana: doctrines common to all Mahayanists, the Madhyamikas, the Yogacarins, Buddhist logic, the Tantras.
  4. <

ISBN: 9780415460989

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 534g

302 pages