This book argues that the Indian ascetic traditions have two independent sources, the one Vedic, the other non-Vedic. This point of view has been expressed here and there in the scholarly literature, but it has never yet been argued in...

„Absorption. Human Nature and Buddhist Liberation“ von Johannes Bronkhorst untersucht die Konzepte der Meditation und Erleuchtung im Buddhismus, insbesondere in Bezug auf die menschliche Natur und das Streben nach Befreiung. Bronkhorst...

The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural...