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TO SEE THE BUDDHA IBD

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
12 / 1994
9780691037738
Inglês

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Malcolm David Eckel takes us on a contemporary quest to discover the essential meaning behind the Buddha?s many representations. Eckel?s bold thesis proposes that the proper understanding of Buddhist philosophy must be thoroughly religious--an understanding revealed in Eckel?s new translation of the philospher Bhavaviveka?s major work, The Flame of Reason. Eckel shows that the dimensions of early Indian Buddhism--popular art, conventional piety, and critical philosophy--all work together to express the same religious yearning for the fullness of emptiness that Buddha conveys.