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**{{i|1 The origins of rebirth|29}} | **{{i|'''1''' The origins of rebirth|29}} | ||
**{{i|1.1 Buddhism and early Indian religion|29}} | **{{i|1.1 Buddhism and early Indian religion|29}} | ||
1.2 Time: | **{{i|1.2 Time: ''saṃsāra''|41}} | ||
1.3 Action and the person: karma 53 | **{{i|1.3 Action and the person: ''karma''|53}} | ||
1.4 Timelessness: | **{{i|1.4 Timelessness: ''mokṣa'' (''nirvāṇa'')|58}} | ||
2 Varieties of Buddhist discourse 65 | **{{i|'''2''' Varieties of Buddhist discourse|65}} | ||
2.1 Buddhist thought in context 65 | **{{i|2.1 Buddhist thought in context|65}} | ||
2.2 Different ways of talking about 'self and 'person' 71 | **{{i|2.2 Different ways of talking about 'self and 'person'|71}} | ||
2.3 Elements of personality and (not-)self 78 | **{{i|2.3 Elements of personality and (not-)self|78}} | ||
6 'Neither the same nor different' 177 | *{{i|'''Part II The doctrine of not-self'''|85}} | ||
6.1 'A person is not found' 178 | **{{i|'''3''' The denial of self as 'right view'|87}} | ||
6.2 Images of identity and difference 185 | **{{i|3.1 Different kinds of 'right view'|87}} | ||
6.3 Self and other: compassion 188 | **{{i|3.2 Arguments in support of ''anattā''|95}} | ||
Part IV Continuity 197 | **{{i|3.3 The denial of self as a strategy in 'mental culture'|111}} | ||
7 Conditioning and consciousness 199 | **{{i|'''4''' Views, attachment, and 'emptiness'|116}} | ||
7.1 The construction(s) of temporal existence 200 | **{{i|4.1 Views and attachment|117}} | ||
7.2 The stations of evolving consciousness 213 | **{{i|4.2 The Unanswered Questions|131}} | ||
7.3 Vegetation imagery 218 | **{{i|4.3 Quietism and careful attention|138}} | ||
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8.1 impermanent are conditioned things' 226 | *{{i|'''Part III Personality and rebirth'''|145}} | ||
8.2 The 'ultimate' extent of a lifetime: momentariness 234 | **{{i|'''5''' The individual of 'conventional truth'|147}} | ||
8.3 The | **{{i|5.1 'Conventional' and 'ultimate truth'|147}} | ||
8.4 River imagery 247 | **{{i|5.2 ''Attabhāva'' 'individuality', ''puggala'' 'person'|156}} | ||
Conclusion 262 | **{{i|5.3 House imagery|165}} | ||
Notes 267 | **{{i|'''6''' 'Neither the same nor different'|177}} | ||
Bibliography 310 | **{{i|6.1 'A person is not found'|178}} | ||
Glossary and index of Pali and Sanskrit terms 318 | **{{i|6.2 Images of identity and difference|185}} | ||
General index 321 | **{{i|6.3 Self and other: compassion|188}} | ||
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**{{i|8.3 The ''bhavaṅga''-mind|238}} | |||
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***{{i|''Notes''|267}} | |||
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Selfless Persons
Book
Book
This book seeks to explain carefully and sypathetically the Buddhist doctrine of anatta ('not-self'), which denies the existence of any self, soul or enduring essence in human beings. The author relates this doctrine to its cultural and historical context, particularly to its Brahmanical background, and shows how the Theravāda Buddhist tradition has constructed a philosophical and psychological account of personal identity and continuity on the apparently impossible basis of the denial of self. (Source: Cambridge University Press) For relevance to the concept of buddha-nature, see chapter 8, "Momentariness and the bhavaṅga-mind."
| Citation | Collins, Steven. Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravāda Buddhism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1982. https://archive.org/details/thervadaselflesspersonsimagerythoughtintheravadabuddhismstevencollinsoup_564_z/mode/2up. |
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