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Title |
Title of document |
Is This Book To Be Believed? - What the Buddha Thought |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Richard Gombrich; Oxford University; United Kingdom |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Buddhist Studies |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
Buddhism; history; Buddha; doctrines |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
BQ1-9800 Buddhism; BQ860-939 Gautama Buddha |
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Description |
Abstract |
I have tried in the pages above to show that the Buddha's main ideas are powerful and coherent. If I had a more thorough knowledge of the Pali Canon than, alas, I can claim, I would have made a better job of it; but surely I have done enough to show that this coherence is not imposed by my fantasy, but exists in the texts. Yet, according to the fashionable view represented by my critic, Buddhism, which at least in numerical terms must be the greatest movement in the entire history of human ideas, is a ball which was set rolling by someone whose ideas are not known and - one may presume from what he writes - can never be known. So the intellectual edifice which I have described came together by a process of accumulation, rather like an avalanche. I am reminded of the blindfolded monkeys whose random efforts somehow produce a typescript of the complete works of Shakespeare. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-Aug-2009 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/19113 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.19113 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; What the Buddha Thought |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
global |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |