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Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities (Paperback)
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Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions
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This book presents an answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part
I distinguishes between systematic and narrative thought in the
Pali texts of Theravada Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia,
arguing that nirvana produces closure in both, and setting nirvana
in the wider category of Buddhist Felicities. Part II explores
other Buddhist utopias (both eu-topias, 'good places', and
ou-topias, 'no-places'), and relates Buddhist utopianism to studies
of European and American utopian writing. The book ends with a
close reading of the Vessantara Jataka, which highlights the
conflict between the ascetic quest for closure and ultimate
felicity, and the ongoing demands of ordinary life and society.
Steven Collins discusses these issues in relation to textuality,
world history and ideology in premodern civilizations, aiming to
contribute to an alternate vision of Buddhist history, which can
hold both the inside and the outside of texts together.
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