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Book cover image of Pali Buddhism by Frank Hoffman

Authors: Frank Hoffman, Deegalle Mahinda
ISBN-13: 9780700703593, ISBN-10: 0700703594
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 1996
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Frank Hoffman

Book Synopsis

This is an interdisciplinary and holistic survey of Pali Buddhism, covering philological, indigenous and philosophical approaches in a single volume.
The work is divided into three main sections: Philological Foundations; Insiders' Understandings; and Philosophical Implications.

Journal of Buddhist Ethics - Anne M. Blackburn

...[C]ontains several essays which may be of interest to scholars of Buddhism....Scholars of contemporary Theravaada Buddhist cultures may also find food for thought in Dharmasiri's sharp criticisms of the Theravaada.

	Dedication
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Foreword
	Introduction	1
	Plate 1: Anuradhapura elephant	14
1	Theravada Buddhism's Two Formulations of the Dasa Sila and the Ethics of the Gradual Path	17
2	A Proposed Model of Early Buddhist Liberation	43
3	Dhammapada and Tirukkral: A Comparative Study	57
4	Abhidharma as Paradigm for Practice	79
	Plate 2: Anuradhapura guardian	102
5	The Moral Significance of Buddhist Nirvana	105
6	Suicide and Emotional Ambivalence: An Early Buddhist Perspective	117
7	The Logical Grammar of the Word "Rebirth" in the Buddhist Paradigm	133
8	A Buddhist Critique of Theravada	141
	Plate 3: Anuradhapura moonstone	156
9	Two Dogmas of Buddhism	159
10	What is the Status of the Doctrine of Dependent Origination?	175
11	Process Philosophy and Theravada Buddhism	184
12	Theravada and Processes: Nirvana as a Meta-process	196
13	"Orientalism" in Buddhology	207
	Appendix	227
	Index	229

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