Steven Collins

Nirvana

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to the Buddhist concept of nirvana, offering its own interpretations of key texts and translations for non-specialist readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780521881982
• ISBN-10: 0521881986
• Artikelnr.: 28177426

Autorenporträt

Steven Collins is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Systematic and narrative thought: eternity and closure in structure and story
2. Nirvana as a concept
3. Nirvana as an image
4. Nirvana, time and narrative
5. Past and future Buddhas
Conclusion
Endnotes and bibliography.