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The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts

The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts

Evola, Julius

Paperback

BuddhismMeditation

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0892815531
ISBN13: 9780892815531
Publisher: Inner Traditions International
Published: Feb 1 1996
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In a probing analysis of the oldest Buddhist texts, Julius Evola places the doctrine of liberation in its original context. The early teachings, he suggests, offer the foremost example of an active spirituality that is opposed to the more passive, modern forms of theistic religions. This sophisticated, highly readable analysis of the theory and practice of Buddhist asceticism, first published in Italian in 1943, elucidates the central truths of the eightfold path and clears away the later accretions of Buddhist doctrine. Evola describes the techniques for conscious liberation from the world of maya and for achieving the state of transcendence beyond dualistic thinking. Most surprisingly, he argues that the widespread belief in reincarnation is not an original Buddhist tenet. Evola presents actual practices of concentration and visualization, and places them in the larger metaphysical context of the Buddhist model of mind and universe.

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