Early Buddhist Teachings

<b>A clear, elegant exploration of the basic teachings of early Buddhism, ideal for both general readers and scholars.</b><BR><BR>Discover the birth of Buddhism and the essentials of Buddhist teachings with this clear, comprehensive explanation of early Buddhism’s key doctrines. You’ll come away with:<BR> <ul> <li>insight into the beginning of Buddhism and the significance of its core beliefs—dependent arising, non-self, moral life, the diagnosis of the human condition, the critique of theoretical views, and the nature of Nibbana;</li> <li>a lucid understanding of the Buddha’s challenge to the concept of the subject as a self-entity and the reality of both the subject and object, perceiver and perceived, as a dynamic process;</li> <li>a grasp of early Buddhist teachings as representing a middle position (equally aloof from spiritual eternalism and materialist annihilation) and a middle path (equally aloof from self-mortification and sensual indulgence); and</li> <li>the experience of the Buddha’s teachings on attaining liberation as comprehensible, sensible, and something we can make part of our own practice.</li> </ul>