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The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism
by Peter Harvey
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- 0700703381
- ISBN 13
- 9780700703388
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New. This careful analysis of early Buddhist thought opens out a perspective in which no permanent Self is accepted, but a rich analysis of changing and potent mental processes is developed. It explores issues relating to the not-Self teaching: self-development, moral responsibility, the between-lives period, and the 'undetermined questions' on the world, on the 'life principle' and on the liberated one after death. It examines the 'person' as a flowing continuity centred on consciousness or discernment (vinnana) configured in changing minds-sets (cittas). The resting state of this is seen as 'brightly shining' - like the 'Buddha nature' of Mahayana thought - so as to represent the potential for Nirvana. Nirvana is then shown to be a state in which consciousness transcends all objects, and thus participates in a timeless, unconditioned realm.
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- Title
- The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism
- Author
- Peter Harvey
- Book Condition
- New
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0700703381
- ISBN 13
- 9780700703388
- Publisher
- RoutledgeCurzon
- Place of Publication
- London, Uk
- This edition first published
- September 28, 1995
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