Selfless Persons
Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism
- Author: Steven Collins
- Date Published: November 1990
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521397261
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This book explains the Buddhist doctrine of annattá ("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 Brahman background. He shows how the Theravada Buddhist tradition has constructed a philosophical and psychological account of personal identity on the apparently impossible basis of the denial of self. Although the emphasis of the book is firmly philosophical, Dr. Collins makes use of a number of academic disciplines, particularly those of anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and comparative religion, in an attempt to discover the "deep structure" of Buddhist culture and imagination, and to make these doctrines comprehensible in terms of the western history of ideas.
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"...it succeeds also in its avowed aim of being a book entirely accessible to non-specialists, and will be of interest not only to students of the human sciences, but also to those who are students of themselves for other than, or at least for more than, academic reasons." The Times Literary Supplement
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- Date Published: November 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521397261
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.455kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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-Slef:
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.
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