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2) Buddhism
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Malcolm David Eckel presents 24 lectures concerning the history and funadmental teachings of Buddhism.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"While a short work of only eight verses and a three-page autocommentary, the Investigation of the Percept has inspired epistemologists for centuries and has had a wide-ranging impact in India, Tibet, and China. Dignaga, one of the major figures in Buddhist epistemology, explores issues such as the relation between the mind and its percepts, the problems of idealism and realism, and the nature of intentionality in this brief but profound text. This...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Twelve lectures delivered by Professor Malcolm David Eckel of Boston University in which he presents a survey of Buddhism from its origins in India to contemporary times in America. The course introduces the vitality and adaptability of Buddhism which has transformed civilizations in Asia and become a lively component of Western culture.
A religion without God? How could that be? And how could it have captured and captivated so many millions of people...
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Buddhism challenges some of the most important Western ideas about God, human life, and the self. In Buddhism, there is no single almighty God who created the world. Instead, Buddhism teaches that all of life is suffering, and there is no permanent self. Moreover, it teaches that in accepting that all life is suffering, bliss can be achieved in this life. Buddhism's core philosophy that nothing is permanent--all is change--has made it an astonishingly...
