Langbeschreibung
This accessible, well-written book - by one of the world's top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism - is mandatory reading on important doctrines and themes in early Buddhism for all serious students of Buddhism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Debate, Skill in Means, Allegory and Literalism 2. How, not What: Kamma as a Reaction to Brahminism 3. Metaphor, Allegory, Satire 4. Retracing an Ancient Debate: how insight worsted concentration in the Pali Canon 5. Who was Angulimala?