What the Buddha thought
By: Richard Gombrich.
Series: Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Oakville, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781845536121; 9781845536145
Subjects: Gautama Buddha -- Teachings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: More about karma, and its social context; value: The antecedents of the karma doctrine in Brahminism; value: Jain antecedents; value: What did the Buddha mean by "no soul"?; value: The Buddha's positive values: love and compassion; value: Assessing the evidence; value: Everything is burning: the centrality of fire in the Bddha's thought; value: Causation and non-random process; value: Cognition; language; nirvana; value: The Buddha's pragmatism and intellectual style; value: The Buddha as satirist; brahmin terms as social metaphors; value: Is this book to be believed?