num_pages: 249
description: Does the self - a unified separate persisting thinker/owner/agent - exist? Drawing on Western philosophy neurology and Theravadin Buddhism this book argues that the self is an illusion created by a tier of non-illusory consciousness and a tier of desire-driven thought and emotion and that separateness underpins the self's illusory status.
language: English
title: Analytical Buddhism: The Two-tiered Illusion of Self
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan