Pyrrhonian Buddhism: a philosophical reconstruction
Preface -- 1. West Meets East -- 2. Diogenes Laertius -- 3. Sextus Empiricus -- 4. Timon and Aulus Gellius -- 5. Pragmata and Dependent Origination -- 6. Emptiness and the Suspension of Belief -- 7. Ataraxia and Bodhi -- Bibliography -- Index.
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London New York
Routledge
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge focus
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhist philosophy
/ Pyrrhonism
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| Further subjects: | B
Pyrrhon of Elis
Influence
B Buddhism Doctrines B Skeptics (Greek philosophy) B Buddhism and philosophy |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Preface -- 1. West Meets East -- 2. Diogenes Laertius -- 3. Sextus Empiricus -- 4. Timon and Aulus Gellius -- 5. Pragmata and Dependent Origination -- 6. Emptiness and the Suspension of Belief -- 7. Ataraxia and Bodhi -- Bibliography -- Index. "Pyrrhonian Buddhism reconstructs the path to enlightenment shared both by early Buddhists and the ancient Greek sceptics inspired by Pyrrho of Elis, who may have had extended contacts with Buddhists when he accompanied Alexander the Great to India in the third century BCE. This volume explores striking parallels between early Buddhism and Pyrrhonian scepticism, suggesting their virtual identity. Both movements saw beliefs--fictions mistaken for truths--as the principal source of human suffering. Both practiced suspension of judgment about beliefs to obtain release from suffering, and to achieve enlightenment, which the Buddhists called bodhi and the Pyrrhonists called ataraxia. And both came to understand the structure of human experience without belief, which the Buddhists called dependent origination and the Pyrrhonists described as phenomenalistic atomism. This book is intended for the general reader, as well as historians, classicists, Buddhist scholars, philosophers, and practitioners of spiritual techniques"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 121 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 0367631326 |