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Rethinking the Buddha - Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception (Paperback)
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Rethinking the Buddha - Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception (Paperback)
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A cornerstone of Buddhist philosophy, the doctrine of the four
noble truths maintains that life is replete with suffering, desire
is the cause of suffering, nirvana is the end of suffering, and the
way to nirvana is the eightfold noble path. Although the
attribution of this seminal doctrine to the historical Buddha is
ubiquitous, Rethinking the Buddha demonstrates through a careful
examination of early Buddhist texts that he did not envision them
in this way. Shulman traces the development of what we now call the
four noble truths, which in fact originated as observations to be
cultivated during deep meditation. The early texts reveal that
other central Buddhist doctrines, such as dependent-origination and
selflessness, similarly derived from meditative observations. This
book challenges the conventional view that the Buddha's teachings
represent universal themes of human existence, allowing for a
fresh, compelling explanation of the Buddhist theory of liberation.
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