The book offers a comprehensive discussion on the Buddhist liberation and meditation concepts based on the original Pāli scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism. It
One of the main theses of this study is that some of the vocational and soteriological tensions and points of departure of the early community depicted in the P
This book examines ‘mindfulness’ in early Buddhism, and explores its central role in early Buddhist practice and philosophy. Using textual analysis and crit
This book provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest s