TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shulman,Eviatar
TI  - Rethinking the Buddha: early Buddhist philosophy as meditative perception 
SN  - 9781107477100
AV  - BQ5612 .S535 2014eb
U1  - 294.3/4435 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Meditation
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Buddhist philosophy
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Philosophie bouddhique
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Buddhismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Lehre
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1. The structural relationship between philosophy and meditation. 1.1. The standard description of liberation ; 1.2. "Cessation of perception and feeling" ; 1.3. Broader theoretical perspectives ; 1.3.1. Buddhist pessimism ; 1.3.2. Experience and meditative experience ; 1.4. Methodological considerations: which texts will be relied on and why? -- Chapter 2. A philosophy of being human. 2.1. Did the Buddha eschew metaphysics? ; 2.2. Selflessness ; 2.3. Dependent-origination (Paiccasamuppada) ; 2.3.1. The twelve links and beyond ; 2.2.2. The middle ; 2.4. Summary -- Chapter 3. Mindfulness, or how philosophy becomes perception. 3.1. The Satipahana-sutta's presentation of mindfulness ; 3.2. On the relationship between the practice of mindfulness and jhana-meditation ; 3.3. Summary -- Chapter 4. The Four Noble Truths as meditative perception. 4.1. This ; 4.2. The four truths and dependent-origination ; 4.3. The four truths and selflessness ; 4.4. The fourth truth of the path ; 4.5. The four observations and liberation ; 4.6. The first sermon reconsidered ; 4.7. Summary -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index
N2  - Shulman traces the development of the four noble truths, which in fact originated as observations to be cultivated during meditation
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