The Way to Nirvana: Six Lectures on Ancient Buddhism As a Discipline of Salvation - Brossura

Poussin, Louis De La Vallée

 
9781107643451: The Way to Nirvana: Six Lectures on Ancient Buddhism As a Discipline of Salvation

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This 1917 volume contains six lectures related to the central topic of Ancient Buddhism as a discipline of salvation.

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Descrizione del libro

This 1917 volume contains the substance of the 1916 Hibbert Lectures, delivered by Louis de La Vallée Poussin (1869–1938), a Belgian scholar who specialised in studies of Buddhism and the Indian subcontinent. The lectures cover areas related to the central topic of Ancient Buddhism as a discipline of salvation.

Contenuti

1. Origins of the Indian disciplines of salvation; 2. The Buddhist soul; 3. Buddhist definition of karman; 4. The doctrine of karman and transmigration, cosmogony, theogony; 5. Nirvãna; 6. The path to nirvãna; Index.

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