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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (12 Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415207010
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415207010
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
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'I know of no more lucid expositor of Indian or Buddhist philosophy.' - Richard Gombrich

'Though there is no shortage of introductions to Buddhism on the market, I found this one compelling reading ... I shall recommend this lively and authoritative volume to all my students.' - Richard Gombrich, Balliol College, Oxford

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Guides the reader towards a richer understanding of the central concepts of classical Indian Buddhist thought and opens up the latest scholarly perspectives and controversies. Includes an up-to-date survey of Buddhist Tantra in India.

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Coming to see things the way they really are, is the path of Buddha Dharma, the Buddhist doctrine, that leads to enlightenment, as clarified by the author Paul Williams. Ironically, in the Western world Buddhism itself is still very far from being adequately seen the way it really is, despite the considerable amount of popular and academic studies which were being pursued in the last century. The ever increasing interest in Eastern philosophy and religion notwithstanding, the vast majority of people in Europe and the US is still merely acquainted with a rarely coherent and sometimes motley patchwork of woolly catchword outlines regarding the supposed teachings of Buddha. Especially the obtrusive invasion of zeitgeist esoterica, which have been cramming the bookshops full of shelf-metres of oh so edifying and devotional tomes since the late 1960's, their authors daring to claim to have grasped the only true essence of Buddhism, contributes to the maintenance of confusion and ignorance about this in fact not so easily understood religious philosophy. Accordingly, it was mostly by sheer luck, whenever an interested and unbiased layman happened to come upon an objectively informative and authoritative work on Buddhist thought, before losing track within the maze of all those fashionable titles on the market concerning Buddhist topics. More than anything else, suitable up-to-date introductions to the sophisticated field of academic Buddhist studies have been virtually inexistent. Fortunately, this poor situation has now changed for the better through the publication of an outstanding work that meets perfectly all requirements reason and logic impose to my greatest satisfaction: "Buddhist Thought" by Paul Williams and Anthony Tribe, two internationally leading scholars in the field of Buddhist studies. Their brilliant, well-written book is undoubtedly by far the best introductory summary available, shedding bright light of objective comprehension and knowledge on the complex spiritual world of Buddhism by laying bare and concisely expounding its quintessence, to whose fascinating intellectual power many great men like, for instance, the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer have succumbed. If you intend to gain a first, yet thorough and actually reliable understanding of the extensive realm of Buddhism, choose this book as your indispensable guide without the slightest hesitation and forget about all those unscholarly and sorry esoteric efforts producing the kind of joss stick literature hardly worth the paper, that will make your mind swim and won't get you any further with your quest for clear information. As I cited at the beginning, the Buddha is the one who is seeing things the way they really are. Correspondingly, Williams & Tribe are the ones who are seeing Buddhism the way it really is. So we have come full circle. Your awakening is awaiting you! ;-)
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