How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings

ISBN-13: 9780485174175 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 140 str.

Richard F. Gombrich

Opis

This volume takes a look at the earliest Buddhist texts and offers various suggestions as to how the teachings in them developed. One chapter suggests that we cannot understand the Buddha unless we understand that he was debating with other religious teachers, notably brahmins.