Buddhist Scriptures : A Selection Translated from the Pali with Introduction: (A Timeless Classic) - Softcover

Thomas, Edward Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1979404690 ISBN 13: 9781979404693

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

To what extent can we speak of Buddhism as a religion—a system which rejects a belief in an immortal soul and an eternal God? We shall do well not to seek to answer this by fitting our reply into the limits of a ready-made definition. Buddhism implies a certain attitude to the universe, a conception which gives meaning to life, but it does not look upon the ultimate reality of things as personal. It succeeds indeed, more than any other system, in evading ultimate questions, though even in rejecting metaphysics it was unable to remain wholly unmetaphysical.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1979404690
• ISBN 13: 9781979404693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74