Mapping the Buddhist path to liberation : diversity and consistency based on the Pāli Nikāyas and the Chinese Āgamas / Jianxun Shi.
2021
BQ4398
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Title
Mapping the Buddhist path to liberation : diversity and consistency based on the Pāli Nikāyas and the Chinese Āgamas / Jianxun Shi.
Author
Shi, Jianxun, author.
ISBN
9789811611520 (electronic bk.)
9811611521 (electronic bk.)
9789811611513
9811611513
9811611521 (electronic bk.)
9789811611513
9811611513
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 198 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-1152-0 doi
Call Number
BQ4398
Dewey Decimal Classification
294.3/442
Summary
Due to the diversity in Buddhism, its essence remains a puzzle. This book investigates the Buddhist path to liberation from a practical and critical perspective by searching for patterns found in the Pāli Nikāyas and the Chinese Āgamas. The early discourses depict the Buddhist path as a network of routes leading to the same goal: liberation from suffering. This book summarizes various teachings in three aspects, provides a template theory for systematically presenting the formulas of the sequential training of the path, and analyses the differences and similarities among diverse descriptions of the path in the early Buddhist texts. By offering a comprehensive map of the Buddhist path, this book will appeal to scholars and students of Buddhist studies as well as those practitioners with a serious interest in the Buddhist path.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 26, 2021).
Series
Humanities in Asia ; v. 9. 2363-6890
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Path to Liberation
The Prototype: the Buddha's enlightenment accounts
The Sequential Process: Gradual Training
The Factorial Analysis: Path Factors
Comprehensive Discussions of the Three Aspects of the Path
Types of Variation
An Integrated Whole
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Path to Liberation
The Prototype: the Buddha's enlightenment accounts
The Sequential Process: Gradual Training
The Factorial Analysis: Path Factors
Comprehensive Discussions of the Three Aspects of the Path
Types of Variation
An Integrated Whole
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.