This book presents a new answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part One distinguishes between systematic and narrative thought in the Pali texts of Theravada Buddhism, looking at the place of nirvana in both. Part Two explores other Buddhist utopias and relates Buddhist utopianism to studies of European and American utopian writing. Steven Collins discusses these issues in relation to textuality, world history, and ideology in premodern civilizations, aiming to contribute to a new vision of Buddhist history that integrates the inside and the outside of texts.
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"This major publication belongs in all undergraduate and graduate libraries supporting religious studies programs." John Clifford Holt, Religious Studies Review
"This is a fantastic work. It is highly informative, intriguing, and thoroughly researched. I recommend it without reservation for anyone interested in the Pali literature. The only criticism I have is that the author might have made this one colossal work into a few smaller ones. Otherwise, this is an excellent accomplishment." Vanessa Sasson, ARC, the Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University
"This is a fantastic work. It is highly informative, intriguing, and thoroughly researched. I recommend it without reservation for anyone interested in the Pali literature. The only criticism I have is that the author might have made this one colossal work into a few smaller ones. Otherwise, this is an excellent accomplishment." Vanessa Sasson, ARC, the Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University
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This book presents a new answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part One distinguishes between systematic and narrative thought in the Pali texts of Theravada Buddhism, looking at the place of nirvana in both. Part two explores other Buddhist utopias and relates Buddhist utopianism to studies of European and American utopian writing. Steven Collins discusses these issues in relation to textuality, world history, and ideology in premodern civilisations, aiming to contribute to a new vision of Buddhist history which integrates the inside and the outside of texts.
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It is, surely, no more than common sense to recognize that people react to problems, ideas and events by telling stories about them, or by understanding them in terms of already-known stories, as well as-and sometimes at the same time as- by thinking logically or scientifically about them; and that what counts as a good story is not the same as what counts as a good argument, and vice versa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
premodern agrarian states, noble warrior king, customary terrain, murder flourished, ooo eons, vamsa texts, perfect moral commonwealth, theft flourished, wheel jewel, narrated future, poverty flourished, antagonistic symbiosis, chief female disciples, uncountable eons, final nirvana, penultimate life, noble turning, civilizational history, narrated present, unconditioned element, fourfold army, divine clothes, syntactic value, agrarian stage, analytical dualism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Introduction, Sri Lanka, Blessed One, Great Being, Birth Story, Conditioning Factors, Monastic Order, Gotama Buddha, Buddha Gotama, Buddha Metteyya, Aggañña Sutta, Meditation Level, Southern Asia, Dhamma Mode, Spirited Utterance, Rhys Davids, Dependent Origination, Conditioned Existents, History of the Future, Human World, Land of Cockaygne, Eightfold Path, Nang Phim, South Asian, Attainment of Cessation New!
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It is, surely, no more than common sense to recognize that people react to problems, ideas and events by telling stories about them, or by understanding them in terms of already-known stories, as well as-and sometimes at the same time as- by thinking logically or scientifically about them; and that what counts as a good story is not the same as what counts as a good argument, and vice versa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
premodern agrarian states, noble warrior king, customary terrain, murder flourished, ooo eons, vamsa texts, perfect moral commonwealth, theft flourished, wheel jewel, narrated future, poverty flourished, antagonistic symbiosis, chief female disciples, uncountable eons, final nirvana, penultimate life, noble turning, civilizational history, narrated present, unconditioned element, fourfold army, divine clothes, syntactic value, agrarian stage, analytical dualism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Introduction, Sri Lanka, Blessed One, Great Being, Birth Story, Conditioning Factors, Monastic Order, Gotama Buddha, Buddha Gotama, Buddha Metteyya, Aggañña Sutta, Meditation Level, Southern Asia, Dhamma Mode, Spirited Utterance, Rhys Davids, Dependent Origination, Conditioned Existents, History of the Future, Human World, Land of Cockaygne, Eightfold Path, Nang Phim, South Asian, Attainment of Cessation New!
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