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Salvation --- Buddhism. --- Salvation (Buddhism)

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Is there any escape form the awareness of pain and the bonds of an unending cycle of life? Why are human subject to craving" What is the nature human beings? The Buddhist understanding of salvation is based upon such queries. A thorough grasp of the function of craving in religious life is strategic to an understanding of Buddhism, yet its role in the Buddhist plan of salvation is easy to oversimplify and misinterpret. Matthews examines the concept of craving in Buddhism from both a phenomenological and religious perspective. He btings to the task a critical examination of key canonical texts of the Sutta Pitaka (Nikayas) as well as extensive travel in research of the meaning of craving for contemporary Buddhists, from learned monks to lay villagers. Having established the Buddhist perspective on how craving arises, how it affects the mind, and how it can be redirected, the volume concludes with spiritual implications of craving: crucial to awareness and freedom—emancipation—is the engagement and harnessing rather than suppression of craving. The volume will be of interest to students of Buddhism, historians of religion, and persons interested in basic human questions.

Salvation --- Buddhism. --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Salvation (Buddhism)

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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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La "divinisation de soi" constitue en Chine une option originale dans l'éventail des possibles destins posthumes de l'individu. Dans ce livre, Vincent Goossaert réévalue le modèle d'un au-delà chinois peuplé d'ancêtres, et remet en lumière une alternative tout aussi crédible, si ce n'est plus enviable : celle pour l'homme de devenir un dieu. Ce faisant, le livre retrace les grandes étapes de l'histoire des conceptions et pratiques religieuses de la divinisation, de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Loin de la vision répandue d'un imaginaire funéraire essentiellement tourné vers le culte des ancêtres, la Chine se présente ici comme un terrain d'expérimentation des destins individuels au-delà de la mort.

Eschatology. --- Anthropology of religion --- Salvation. --- Salvation --- Salvation (Buddhism) --- Religious anthropology --- Last things (Theology) --- Buddhism. --- China --- Religious life and customs. --- S13A/0410 --- China: Religion--Death, funeral, ancestral worship --- Religion --- Ethnology --- Religious thought --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Eschatology --- Eschatologie --- Anthropologie religieuse --- Salut --- Bouddhisme --- Chine --- Vie religieuse --- Buddhism --- Religious aspects --- Religion and politics --- Ancestor worship --- Apotheosis