Overview
Views the entirety of the teachings presented in numerous discourses of the Buddha and his early disciples in the Pali canon from a Buddhistic perspective
Solely devoted to a doctrinal analysis of the Buddha’s teaching in the discourses to understand the key topics with academically convincing new insights
Interpretates the Buddha’s teaching from the perspective of the discourses themselves, superseding the Commentarial and Theravada interpretations of it
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book approaches the Dhamma, the Buddha’s teaching, from a Buddhistic perspective, viewing various individual teachings presented in hundreds of early discourses of Pali canon, comprehending them under a single systemic thought of a single individual called the Buddha. It explicates the structure of this thought, going through various contextual teachings and teaching categories of the discourses, treating them as necessary parts of a liberating thought that constitutes the right view of one who embraces the Buddha’s teaching as his or her sole philosophy of life. It interprets the diverse individual dhammas as being in congruence with each other; and as contributory to forming the whole of the Buddha’s teaching, the Dhamma. By exploring some selected topics such as ignorance, configurations, not-self, and nibbāna in thirteen chapters, the book enables readers to understand the whole (the Dhamma) in relation to the parts (the dhammas), and the parts in relation to the whole, while realizing the importance of studying every single dhamma category or topic not for its own sake but for understand the entirety of the teaching. This way of viewing and explaining the teachings of the discourses enables readers to clearly comprehend the teaching of the Buddha in early Buddhism.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
G. A. Somaratne is Associate Professor in Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong. He is a Sri Lankan scholar in early Buddhism. He was formerly Co-director of Dhammachai Tipiṭaka Project, Rector of Sri Lanka international Buddhist Academy, Professor in Pāli and Buddhist Studies, University of Peradeniya, and Associate Professor in Religion, Miyazaki International College. His previous publications include a critical edition of the Saṃyuttanikāya Vol. I (1998), and contributions to Common Buddhist Text (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Buddha’s Teaching
Book Subtitle: A Buddhistic Analysis
Authors: G. A. Somaratne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2410-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2409-4Published: 26 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2412-4Published: 27 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2410-0Published: 25 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 392
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy, general, Buddhism, Religious Studies, general