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DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE? is a unique study of the earliest recorded "discourses" of the Buddha, taking an approach that is at once psychological, philosophical, and literary. In a market abundant with how-to books for spiritual practitioners and advice for achieving a happy life by Buddhist masters, this book offers original readings of some of the most powerful of the Buddha's teachings, which take the form of conversations with a wide range of people: disciples, wandering Hindu philosophers, Brahmin white supremacists, ordinary householders, and even a tyrant. The book is a series of essays on specific passages from the Buddha's original Discourses and is an introduction to the Buddha's radical empiricism. Readers will come away from this book with a deepened understanding of their own lives, an intimacy with the Buddha's penetrating mind, and a desire for further study of these wonderful texts and, above all, of themselves.
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Do You Know Who You Are?, Krishnan Venkatesh
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2018
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- Titel
- Do You Know Who You Are?
- Untertitel
- Reading the Buddha's Discourses
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Krishnan Venkatesh
- Verlag
- Mercer University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2018
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0881466794
- ISBN13
- 9780881466799
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Philosophisches Thema, USA, Buddhismus, Östliche Philosophie, Buddha
- Beschreibung
- DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE? is a unique study of the earliest recorded "discourses" of the Buddha, taking an approach that is at once psychological, philosophical, and literary. In a market abundant with how-to books for spiritual practitioners and advice for achieving a happy life by Buddhist masters, this book offers original readings of some of the most powerful of the Buddha's teachings, which take the form of conversations with a wide range of people: disciples, wandering Hindu philosophers, Brahmin white supremacists, ordinary householders, and even a tyrant. The book is a series of essays on specific passages from the Buddha's original Discourses and is an introduction to the Buddha's radical empiricism. Readers will come away from this book with a deepened understanding of their own lives, an intimacy with the Buddha's penetrating mind, and a desire for further study of these wonderful texts and, above all, of themselves.