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If Buddhism denies a permanent self, how does it perceive identity? According to Buddhist texts, the entire universe, including the individual, is made up of different phenomena, which Buddhism classifies into different categories: what we conventionally call a “person” can be understood in terms of five aggregates, the sum of which must not be taken for a permanent entity, since beings are nothing but an amalgam of ever-changing phenomena. Although the aggregates are only a “convenient fiction,” the Buddha nevertheless made frequent use of the aggregate scheme when asked to explain the elements at work in the individual. In this study Mathieu Boisvert presents a detailed analysis of the five aggregates (pañcakkhandhā) and establishes how the Theravda tradition views their interaction. He clarifies the fundamentals of Buddhist psychology by providing a rigorous examination of the nature and interrelation of each of the aggregates and by establishing, for the first time, how the function of each of these aggregates chains beings to the cycle of birth, death and rebirth — the theory of dependent origination (paticcasamuppāda). Boisvert contends that without a thorough understanding of the five aggregates, we cannot grasp the liberation process at work within the individual, who is, after all, simply an amalgam of the five aggregates. The Five Aggregates represents an important and original contribution to Buddhist studies and will be of great interest to all scholars and students of Buddhism.

Theravāda Buddhism --- Salvation (Buddhism) --- Skandhas. --- Pali Buddhism --- Southern Buddhism --- Buddhism --- Buddhist sects --- Hinayana Buddhism --- Aggregates (Buddhism) --- Khandha --- Pancakkhandha --- Doctrines. --- Psychology. --- Doctrines --- Psychology --- Salvation --- Buddhism. --- Theravada Buddhism

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Lama Govinda --- early Buddhism --- Pali Buddhism --- Mahayana and Tantric philosophy --- the interrelatedness and nonsubstantiality of all things --- Tibetan Mysticism --- Buddhist thought --- Vedic and Upanishadic times --- the Tantric period of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

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Theravada Buddhism --- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) --- Discipline. --- Theravāda Buddhism --- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism). --- Pali Buddhism --- Southern Buddhism --- Buddhism --- Buddhist sects --- Hinayana Buddhism --- Monastic and religious life (Lamaism) --- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders --- Religious life --- Discipline --- Tipiṭaka. --- Pātimokkha --- Patịmaukhkạ --- Nihyaku-gojukkai --- Purātimōkusha --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Theravada Buddhism - Discipline.

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This 1991 book provides a brief yet detailed account of the ideal way of life prescribed for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Pali texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism. The author describes the way in which the Buddha's disciples institutionalized his teachings about such things as food, dress, money, chastity, solitude and discipleship. This tradition represents an ideal of religious life that has been followed in South and Southeast Asia for over two thousand years. In previous writing on the early period of Buddhist monasticism, scholars have usually tried to give an historical account of the evolution of the monastic order, and so have seen the extant Vinaya texts as coming from distinct historical periods. This book takes a different approach by presenting a synchronic account, which allows the author to show that sources are in fact predominantly consistent and coherent.

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders --- Theravāda Buddhism --- 294.3*916 --- 294.3*916 Theravadaboeddhisme: Sthaviravada; Santrantika; Mahisasako; Vinaya--(religieuze groeperingen) --- Theravadaboeddhisme: Sthaviravada; Santrantika; Mahisasako; Vinaya--(religieuze groeperingen) --- Pali Buddhism --- Southern Buddhism --- Buddhism --- Buddhist sects --- Hinayana Buddhism --- Monasticism and religious orders, Buddhist --- Monasticism and religious orders, Lamaist --- Buddhist monasteries --- Buddhist sanghas --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders. --- Theravāda Buddhism.

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Buddhist monasticism and religious orders --- Theravāda Buddhism --- S37/0520 --- S37/0720 --- S37/0730 --- 294.36 --- Monasticism and religious orders, Buddhist --- Theravada Buddhism --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- Pali Buddhism --- Southern Buddhism --- Buddhism --- Buddhist sects --- Hinayana Buddhism --- Monasticism and religious orders, Lamaist --- Buddhist monasteries --- Buddhist sanghas --- Buddhism outside China, Tibet, Mongolia and Japan--Monasteries and Temples --- Buddhism outside China, Tibet, Mongolia and Japan--Buddhist texts and commentaries: Vinaya Pitaka --- Buddhism outside China, Tibet, Mongolia and Japan--Buddhist texts and commentaries: Sutta Pitaka --- Boeddhisme: Sangha--(religieuze organisatie) --- 294.36 Boeddhisme: Sangha--(religieuze organisatie)