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...