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- Craving and Salvation: A Study in Buddhist Soteriology
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Series: SR Supplements
summary
Is there any escape form the awareness of pain and the bonds of an unending cycle of life? Why are human subject to craving" What is the nature human beings? The Buddhist understanding of salvation is based upon such queries.
A thorough grasp of the function of craving in religious life is strategic to an understanding of Buddhism, yet its role in the Buddhist plan of salvation is easy to oversimplify and misinterpret. Matthews examines the concept of craving in Buddhism from both a phenomenological and religious perspective. He btings to the task a critical examination of key canonical texts of the Sutta Pitaka (Nikayas) as well as extensive travel in research of the meaning of craving for contemporary Buddhists, from learned monks to lay villagers. Having established the Buddhist perspective on how craving arises, how it affects the mind, and how it can be redirected, the volume concludes with spiritual implications of craving: crucial to awareness and freedom—emancipation—is the engagement and harnessing rather than suppression of craving.
The volume will be of interest to students of Buddhism, historians of religion, and persons interested in basic human questions.
Table of Contents
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- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-4
- 2. Personality and Painfulness
- pp. 10-11
- 1. Viññāṇa as "Consciousness"
- pp. 22-29
- 3. The Link of Upādāna
- pp. 32-34
- 5. Mano (Mana)
- pp. 37-41
- 6. Mano and Craving
- pp. 41-43
- 8. The Untrained Citta and Craving
- pp. 45-47
- 9. The Trained Citta
- pp. 48-52
- 10. The Unconscious and Taṇhā
- pp. 52-53
- 11. Previous Scholarship
- pp. 53-55
- 12. Sankhāra
- pp. 55-58
- 13. Sankhāra as Volition
- pp. 57-59
- 17. The Unwholesome Roots
- pp. 68-70
- 18. The Cankers
- pp. 70-73
- 1. The Buddhist Concept of Will
- pp. 75-78
- 4. The Dynamics of Willing (Chanda)
- pp. 82-85
- 6. Craving and Meditation
- pp. 89-92
- 7. Techniques of Meditation
- pp. 92-102
- 8. Wisdom (Paññā) and Nirvāṇa
- pp. 103-107
- Chapter 4: CONCLUSION
- pp. 108-110
- Index of Technical Terms
- pp. 133-138
Additional Information
ISBN
9780889207103
Related ISBN(s)
9780889201477, 9781554587421
MARC Record
OCLC
1016791410
Pages
150
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1983