Nobody at Home
Jon Elster, 2 June 1983
Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism
by Steven Collins.
Cambridge, 323 pp., £22.50, June 1982,0 521 24081 6 Show More
by Steven Collins.
Cambridge, 323 pp., £22.50, June 1982,
Le Bonheur-Liberté: Bouddhisme Profond et Modernité
by Serge-Christophe Kolm.
Presses Universitaires de France, 637 pp., £150, January 1983,9782130373162 Show More
by Serge-Christophe Kolm.
Presses Universitaires de France, 637 pp., £150, January 1983,
“... of the world that promise mystical insight. In his powerful study of the Buddhist tradition, Serge Kolm argues that it is also uniquely suited to the rational scientific mind, by virtue of its emphasis on materialism, determinism and method. Both works underline the elimination of suffering as the goal to which the theory and practice of Buddhism are ... ”
