Pyrrhonian Buddhism

ISBN-13: 9780367631642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 122 str.

Adrian Kuzminski

Opis

Pyrrhonian Buddhism reconstructs the path to enlightenment shared both by early Buddhists and the ancient Greek sceptics inspired by Pyrrho of Elis, who may have had extended contacts with Buddhists when he accompanied Alexander the Great to India in the third century BCE.

Spis treści

Preface;  1. West Meets East;  2. Diogenes Laertius;  3. Sextus Empiricus;  4. Timon and Aulus Gellius;  5. Pragmata and Dependent Origination;  6. Emptiness and the Suspension of Belief;  7. Ataraxia and Bodhi; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Adrian Kuzminski is the author of Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism (2008); Fixing the System: A History of Populism, Ancient & Modern (2008); The Ecology of Money: Debt, Growth, and Sustainability (2015); and The Soul (1994). He is an independent scholar living in upstate New York, USA.