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Anatta Lakkhana Sutta
anicca doctrine
Author_Peter Harvey
Buddhist metaphysics
Canonical Abhidhamma
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Conditioned Arising
Conditioned World
consciousness studies
Dreamless Sleep
Early Buddhism
early Buddhist personal identity debate
Early Suttas
ENT
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Intermediary Existence
Mental States Process
mindstream continuity
moral psychology Buddhism
Past Karma
Perceptual Cycle
Physical Sense Organs
Pure Abodes
rebirth theories
Reborn
Sea Water
Sentient Body
Spiritual Ignorance
Timeless
Undetermined Questions
Upani Ads
Vice Versa
View Iv
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780700703388
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This careful analysis of early Buddhist thought opens out a perspective in which no permanent Self is accepted, but a rich analysis of changing and potent mental processes is developed. It explores issues relating to the not-Self teaching: self-development, moral responsibility, the between-lives period, and the 'undetermined questions' on the world, on the 'life principle' and on the liberated one after death. It examines the 'person' as a flowing continuity centred on consciousness or discernment (vinnana) configured in changing minds-sets (cittas). The resting state of this is seen as 'brightly shining' - like the 'Buddha nature' of Mahayana thought - so as to represent the potential for Nirvana. Nirvana is then shown to be a state in which consciousness transcends all objects, and thus participates in a timeless, unconditioned realm.
