num_pages: 304
description: Droit traces the history of the Western understanding of Buddhism following the late 18th-century beginnings of the translation of the Buddhist canon. He reveals how major 19th-century Western philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Schlegel, Hegel, and others in fact misinterpreted the Buddha's teaching of nirvana as a life-detesting and negative annihilation of the individual.
language: English
title: The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha
titlecomplete: The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha
genres: Buddhism, Philosophy, Religion
ratings_count: 12
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press