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