The Life and Work of Buddhaghosa (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Law, Bimala Churn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282906681 ISBN 13: 9780282906689

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Life and Work of Buddhaghosa

I see that Mr. Law has not anticipated me on this point (i have touched on it in the Afterword to the Visuddhi magga edition), and I have not seen it treated as it deserves by other writers. I make no reference to developments of Buddhist Philosophy in the N. And E. Of gsia. I speak only of the relatively narrow world in which the good and learned Buddhaghosacariya moved and thought and wrote - a strik ing embodiment of the meticulous erudition, the piety, the complacent sectarian view, the amazing credulity, the absence of curiosity as to the greater world so characteristic of his epoch. And I anticipate that our knowledge of his little world.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0282906681
• ISBN 13: 9780282906689
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212