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The Way to Nirvana
Louis de la Vallée Poussin · Buddhism · 1917
7 chapters
The 1916 Hibbert Lectures — six lectures on ancient Buddhism as a discipline of salvation: the Indian context, the Buddhist soul, karman, transmigration and cosmogony, nirvāṇa, and the path that leads there. One of the great early-20th-century philological treatments of Buddhist soteriology.
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Contents
- 1Préface
- 2Chapter I. Indian Disciplines of Salvation
- 3Chapter II. The Buddhist Soul
- 4Chapter III. Buddhist Definition of Karman
- 5Chapter IV. The Doctrine of Karman and Transmigration, Cosmogony, Theogony
- 6Chapter V. Nirvāṇa
- 7Chapter VI. The Path To Nirvāṇa
