Download or read book The Dispeller of Delusion written by Buddhaghosa and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Attention Not Self written by Jonardon Ganeri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonardon Ganeri presents an account of mind in which attention, not self, explains the experiential and normative situatedness of human beings in the world. Attention consists in an organisation of awareness and action at the centre of which there is neither a practical will nor a phenomenological witness. Attention performs two roles in experience, a selective role of placing and a focal role of access. Attention improves our epistemic standing, because it is in the nature of attention to settle on what is real and to shun what is not real. When attention is informed by expertise, it is sufficient for knowledge. That gives attention a reach beyond the perceptual: for attention is a determinable whose determinates include the episodic memory from which our narrative identities are made, the empathy for others that situates us in a social world, and the introspection that makes us self-aware. Empathy is other-directed attention, placed on you and focused on your states of mind; it is akin to listening. Empathetic attention is central to a range of experiences that constitutively require a contrast between oneself and others, all of which involve an awareness of oneself as the object of another's attention. An analysis of attention as mental action gainsays authorial conceptions of self, because it is the nature of intending itself, effortful attention in action, to settle on what to do and to shun what not to do. In ethics, a conception of persons as beings with a characteristic capacity for attention offers hope for resolution in the conflict between individualism and impersonalism. Attention, Not Self is a contribution to a growing body of work that studies the nature of mind from a place at the crossroads of three disciplines: philosophy in the analytical and phenomenological traditions, contemporary cognitive science and empirical work in cognitive psychology, and Buddhist theoretical literature.

Download or read book Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 7 written by Tamar Szabó Gendler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a periodical publication which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe, and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: - traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc; - new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism; - foundational questions in decision-theory; - confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology; - topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology; - topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions; - work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief. Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.

Download or read book A survey of buddhist thought written by Dr. Alfred R. Scheepers and published by Uitgeverij Abraxas / Olive Press. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development of Buddhist thought from a primarily philosophical and epistemological point of view, this wide-ranging study covers a period of more than 2,000 years, following Buddhism from its homeland, India, through its expansion into China and Japan. The diverse historical and cultural settings of Buddhism are considered, and the significant changes and shifts in Buddhist thought are placed in context with the remarkable degree of continuity that has been maintained. Included are discussions of early Buddhist schools in India and South-East Asia, the differences between the two main branches of Buddhism, and the development of Zen philosophies in Japan.

Download or read book Sacred Books of the Buddhists written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dispeller of Delusion written by Buddhaghosa and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modern Truths written by Ekacco Bhikkhu and published by Pa-Auk Meditation Centre (Singapore). This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author’s Note: Modern Truths contains sixteen talks on the Noble Truths plus a talk on how to decide what is and is not a teaching of The Buddha. The talks were prepared upon the request of devotees at a temple in Penang, Malaysia. All except the talk on the Path-factor Right View and that on the Path-factor Right Intention were also delivered. Again upon request, all except the talk on the four Noble Truths (‘A Modern Opportunity’, p.1ff), and the one on Right Intention (‘Beauty Is in the Eye of the Blind’ p.263), were published in Penang, in two separate books. 1) Modern Birth, Ageing, and Death (p.17ff) — 5 + 1 talks One talk on the Noble Truth of Suffering; four on the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering; and as an appendix, one on Right View (the first factor of the Noble Eightfold Path, the Noble Truth of the Path Leading to the Cessation of Suffering). As an appendix also a talk entitled ‘Is this the Dhamma-Vinaya?’ 2) Modern Happiness Very Difficult to See (p.117f) — 7 + 1 talks Seven talks on the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering, and as an appendix, one on the Noble Truth of the Path Leading to the Cessation of Suffering, the Noble Eightfold Path. Upon the request of devotees at a temple in Singapore, all seventeen talks (2+6+8) and their appendices are herewith published together. Since the talk on the Noble Eightfold Path, the talk on Right View, and the talk on Right Intention, were intended as the first three of a series discussing the Noble Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of Suffering, they have here been put separately under The Path Leading to Modern Happiness Very Difficult to See (p.225ff ). The talk on how to decide what is and is not a teaching of The Buddha has been put at the end, as it is not directly related to any of the four Noble Truths, but is directly related to one’s study and understanding of The Buddha’s Teachings as a whole. Inconsistencies in translation, etc., between one talk and another have been left as they are. Ekacco Bhikkhu [From a book published by Pa-Auk Meditation Centre, a Centre of Theravāda Buddhist Tradition]

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Download or read book An Analysis of the Pali Canon written by Russell Webb and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Discourse on Causation written by Bhikku Bodhi and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 1995 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he Mahanidana Sutta is the Buddha’s longest discourse on dependent arising, often taken to be the key to his entire teaching. The commentary treats this doctrine according to the Abhidhamma method, explained in an appendix. A penetrative introduction lays bare the sutta’s structure and the philosophical significance of dependent arising.

Download or read book Manual of a Mystic written by Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original manuscript bears no title either at the beginning or end. The text was published for the Pali Text Society by T.W. Rhys Davids with title "The Yogāvacara's manual of Indian mysticism as practised by Buddhists", London, 1896.

Download or read book Compendium of Philosophy written by Anuruddha and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Pali English Glossary of Buddhist Technical Terms written by Bodhi (Bhikkhu.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Pali Language written by Robert Caesar Childers and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dispeller of Delusion written by Buddhaghosa and published by Wisdom Publications (MA). This book was released on 1987 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Discourse on the Root of Existence written by Bhikkhu Bodhi and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This profound and difficult discourse of the Buddha aims at exposing and eliminating the concept of the ego at its most fundamental level. The commentary offers a detailed explanation of the sutta while a long introduction investigates the text's meaning and its implications for philosophy and psychology.

Download or read book Analysis of the Bhikkhu Patimokkha written by Bhikkhu Nyanatusita and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an depth study and word by word translation of the Bhikkhu Pātimokkha, the Code of Discipline of Buddhist monks which is recited bimonthly in Buddhist monasteries. It is mainly intended for Buddhist monks, but it will also be of interest of those who are studying Pali or Buddhist monastic law. The main part of this book is a word by word translation of the Pali text of the Bhikkhu Pātimokkha; also included are a critical edition of the Pali text, a translation, discussions of technical terms and procedures, an analysis of the structure of the Pātimokkha, and comparisons with rules in the Prātimoksasutras of other early Buddhist schools.