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Pyrrhonian Buddhism - A Philosophical Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Pyrrhonian Buddhism - A Philosophical Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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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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