Pain and its Ending : The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon
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Buddhist Tradition Series
Book: 45Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8120818067, 9788120818064
Length
xvi+255p., Tables; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 22cm.
Subjects
The four noble truths are the most widely recognized teaching of the Buddha today. This book is the first comprehensive study of the teaching as it appears in the Tipitaka, the canon of the Theravada Buddhism. By first identifying the four noble truths as a "right view", the author traces the teaching throughout the canon and the commentaries. There are two distinct patterns that the four noble truths follow: first, they appear in stories of the ...
