| title | authors | external_url | formats | drive_links | course | tags | year | series | number | publisher | pages | olid | ||||||
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*Anattā* and *Nibbāna*: Egolessness and Deliverance |
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nibbana |
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1959 |
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11 |
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16 |
OL45068794M |
Western writers too readily described Buddhism as a nihilistic doctrine teaching annihilation as its highest goal, a view these writers condemned as philosophically absurd and ethically reprehensible. Similar statements still sometimes appear in prejudiced non-Buddhist literature. The pendular reaction to that view was the conception of Nibbāna as existence. It was now interpreted in the light of already familiar religious and philosophical notions [such] as pure being, pure consciousness, pure self or some other metaphysical concept.
A short booklet on seeing Nibbāna as the ultimate expression of the middle way between existence and non-existence.