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Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism

Paul Fuller
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Bhikkhu Bodhi
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buddhist
Buddhist Doctrine
Buddhist Path
Buddhist philosophy
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cognitive detachment
Correct Proposition
Destructive View
Early Abhidhamma
early Buddhist texts
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formations
Fourfold Restraint
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Higher Paths
Mental Bases
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Noble Disciple
Noble Eightfold Path
opposition
Opposition Understanding
overcoming attachment to views
path
Perverted View
right and wrong view
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Rupert Gethin
Small Attention
soteriology
Theravada epistemology
this
True Dhamma
understanding
Unwholesome Action
Unwholesome States
Views Points
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Volitional Formations
Water Falls
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415650496
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Nov 2012
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The notion of 'view' or 'opinion' (ditthi) as an obstacle to 'seeing things as they are' is a central concept in Buddhist thought. This book considers the two ways in which the notion of views are usually understood. Are we to understand right-view as a correction of wrong-views (the opposition understanding) or is the aim of the Buddhist path the overcoming of all views, even right-view (the no-views understanding)? The author argues that neither approach is correct. Instead he suggests that the early texts do not understand right-view as a correction of wrong-view, but as a detached order of seeing, completely different from the attitude of holding to any view, wrong or right.
About Paul Fuller

Paul Fuller is currently doing research for the University of Bristol, from which he has recently received his PhD.

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