The Buddha's teaching : a Buddhistic analysis / G.A. Somaratne.
2021
BQ4190 .S66 2021
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Title
The Buddha's teaching : a Buddhistic analysis / G.A. Somaratne.
Author
Somaratne, G. A., author.
ISBN
9789811624100 (electronic bk.)
9811624100 (electronic bk.)
9789811624094
9811624097
9811624100 (electronic bk.)
9789811624094
9811624097
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 392 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-2410-0 doi
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BQ4190 .S66 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
294.3/42
Summary
This book approaches the Dhamma, the Buddha's teaching, from a Buddhistic perspective, viewing various individual teachings presented in hundreds of early discourses of Pali canon, comprehending them under a single systemic thought of a single individual called the Buddha. It explicates the structure of this thought, going through various contextual teachings and teaching categories of the discourses, treating them as necessary parts of a liberating thought that constitutes the right view of one who embraces the Buddha's teaching as his or her sole philosophy of life. It interprets the diverse individual dhammas as being in congruence with each other; and as contributory to forming the whole of the Buddha's teaching, the Dhamma. By exploring some selected topics such as ignorance, configurations, not-self, and nibbāna in thirteen chapters, the book enables readers to understand the whole (the Dhamma) in relation to the parts (the dhammas), and the parts in relation to the whole, while realizing the importance of studying every single dhamma category or topic not for its own sake but for understand the entirety of the teaching. This way of viewing and explaining the teachings of the discourses enables readers to clearly comprehend the teaching of the Buddha in early Buddhism.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Learning the Dhamma
The Middle Theory
Ignorance of Ignorance
Subjective Configurations
Sensory Experience
Not-self
Craving for Sensuality
Craving for Self-continuity
Reckoned Suffering
Three Sufferings
The Birth-cycle
The Ultimate Goal
The Gradual Path
Conclusion.
Learning the Dhamma
The Middle Theory
Ignorance of Ignorance
Subjective Configurations
Sensory Experience
Not-self
Craving for Sensuality
Craving for Self-continuity
Reckoned Suffering
Three Sufferings
The Birth-cycle
The Ultimate Goal
The Gradual Path
Conclusion.