| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction to part I -- Cosmology and the great declaration -- The perfection of giving -- The birth and early life of Gotama -- Flight from the palace -- Enlightenment and liberation -- The Buddha begins to teach -- The Buddha becomes a wonder worker -- The Buddha meets a king and two brilliant ascetics -- Rules, rules and more rules -- The Buddha goes home -- The Buddha receives a gift and befriends a king -- Meeting a murderer, a visit home, and a quick trip to heaven -- Devadatta attempts to kill the Buddha -- The buddha's last days -- Once the buddha was a universal monarch -- The last watch and the funeral -- Introduction to part II -- The quest for the historical Buddha -- The cosmological structure -- The legends as rites of passage -- The great agent : universal monarchs and Buddhas -- The gift, the renouncer, and the householder |
| Summary |
Hans Penner takes a look at the classic stories of the life of the Buddha. He takes issue with Max Weber's assertion that 'Buddhism is an other-worldly ascetic religion', a point of view that remains dominant in the received tradition and in most contemporary studies of Buddhism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gautama Buddha
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| SUBJECT |
Gautama Buddha fast |
| Subject |
Religious biography -- India.
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Religious biography
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0195385829 |
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9780195385823 |
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