Buddhism and monotheism
Buddhism is a religion lacking the idea of a unique creator God. It is a kind of trans-polytheism that accepts many long-lived gods, but sees ultimate reality, Nirvana, as beyond these. It does, though, see Dhamma/Dharma as a Basic Pattern encompassing everything, with karma as a law-like principle...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge elements. Religion and monotheism
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhism
/ God
/ Idea of God
/ Monotheism
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| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B Monotheism |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Erscheint auch als: 9781108731379 |
| Summary: | Buddhism is a religion lacking the idea of a unique creator God. It is a kind of trans-polytheism that accepts many long-lived gods, but sees ultimate reality, Nirvana, as beyond these. It does, though, see Dhamma/Dharma as a Basic Pattern encompassing everything, with karma as a law-like principle ensuring that good and bad actions have appropriate natural results. This Element explores these ideas, along with overlaps in Buddhist and monotheist ideas and practices, the development of more theist-like ideas in Mahāyāna Buddhism, Buddhist critiques of the idea of a creator God, and some contemporary Buddhist views and appreciations of monotheisms. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jul 2019) |
| ISBN: | 1108758398 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781108758390 |