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The Way to Nirvana: Six lectures on Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvatio

The Way to Nirvana: Six lectures on Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvatio

Paperback

Buddhism

ISBN10: 1463521790
ISBN13: 9781463521790
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 25 2011
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.20 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This is an academic monograph on Nirvana by a French scholar. Poussin contrasts the Hindu and Buddhist views on the cycle of rebirth, and makes a case for original Buddhist concepts of reincarnation as being subtly different than the Hindu, where the soul remains essentially intact across incarnations. He compares the Buddhist view of rebirth to a forest fire (the soul) jumping a river (death), creating an entirely new fire on the other side of the river. He demonstrates the intersection of this topic with Buddhist cosmology, logic, philosophy and ethics. Poussin concludes by reviewing Buddhist techniques for approaching Nirvana.

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