Untying the Knots in Buddhism
author: Alex Wayman
edition: 1997, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 631
ISBN-10: 8120813219
ISBN-13: 9788120813212
Topic: Buddhism
The No Self of Buddhism within Indian culture
This chapter describes The No Self of Buddhism within Indian culture located on page 529 in the book Untying the Knots in Buddhism. These essays deal with Buddhist Heroes such as Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna; Doctrine such as topics on suffering, karma, and voidness; Practice such as diet, purification and visualisations; and further theories of no-self, nescience and omniscience, etc. This chapter is part "Section V, Hindu Buddhist Studies"
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Mahayana Buddhism and Early Advaita Vedanta (Study) [by Asokan N.]
Buddha says, “I pile no wood for fires or altars, I kindle a flame within me My heart the hearth the flame the self” Buddha gave his last message as, “Be such as have the self, As your lamp, self as only refuge, The law as lamp and only refuge” The similar ideas are told in the Svetasvatara Upanishad as: “If the light of the lamp–the bridled man by means of his Own self-suchness” (Svt. Up. II:15)....
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Buddha-nature (as Depicted in the Lankavatara-sutra) [by Nguyen Dac Sy]
In the Mahaparinirvanasutra, the Buddha also taught that if one says that all things do not possess self, this is the nihilistic view (duanjian); if one says that self exists, this is the eternalistic view (changjian); and the Buddha s Dharma is Middle Path which negates the two extremes of the characteristics of self and no-self....
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A Correct Vision [by Venerable Professor Dhammavihari]
For this total Buddhist goodness is the product of a process of self culture, a culture not only of the five external sense organs, but also of the mind internally [as the sixth. ]. At the completion of this total process of culture, the disciple is said to enjoy uncontaminated inward bliss. [So imina ariyena indriya sauvarena samannagato ajjhattau abyaseka sukhau panisauvedeti. M. 1. 181]. What truly would be called goodness in Buddhism would be achieved at this stage....
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[Untying the Knots in Buddhism: index]
[About the Author (Alex Wayman)]
[Foreword]
[Preface]
[Introduction]