How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings by Richard F. Gombrich

Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings

Richard F. Gombrich

180 pages 1996

3 editions

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This book, the second edition of How Buddhism Began, takes a fresh look at the earliest Buddhist texts and offers various suggestions how the teachings in them had developed. Two themes predominate. Firstly, it argues that we cannot understand the...

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