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Harvey, Peter
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Buddhism is a religion lacking the idea of a unique creator God. It is a kind of trans-polytheism that accepts many long-lived gods, but sees ultimate reality, Nirvana, as beyond these. It does, though, see Dhamma/Dharma as a Basic Pattern encompassing everything, with karma as a law-like principle ensuring that good and bad actions have appropriate natural results. This Element explores these ideas, along with overlaps in Buddhist and monotheist ideas and practices, the development of more theist-like ideas in Mahāyāna Buddhism, Buddhist critiques of the idea of a creator God, and some contemporary Buddhist views and appreciations of monotheisms.

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English
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77

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2019, Cambridge University Press
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2019, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

The Indian religious context of the rise and development of Buddhism --
The different traditions of Buddhism --
The historical Buddha and past Buddhas --
Rebirth --
Karma --
Suffering: its causes and its transcending --
Pessimistic? --
Buddhist ethics --
Buddhist practices --
Buddhist meditation and Christian contemplation --
The cosmos at large --
The realms of rebirth --
Mara, the Satan-like deadly one --
How Buddhists see and relate to the gods --
Comparisons to monotheistic views on the heavens --
The Buddhist 'creation' and 'fall' story --
Buddhism on the supposed creator God, great Brahmā --
The lovingkindness and compassion of great Brahmā --
The Dhamma as the basic pattern structuring the world --
Dhamma ... and God --
A person as a flowing dance of conditioned, impermanent, selfless processes --
God as 'I am who I am' --
Nirvana ... and God --
The nature of the Buddha in the Theravada --
Faith and prayer in Theravada Buddhism --
Bodhisattvas in the Mahāyāna --
Buddhas in the Mahāyāna --
The Mahāyāna pantheon --
The three-body doctrine --
Amitabha Buddha --
Key Boddhisattvas: the all-encompassing Avalokiteśvara and the wisdom-embodying Mañjuśrī; --
Revelation, faith and prayer in the Mahāyāna --
The Adibuddha: a God-like figure? --
The Buddha-nature and the problem of evil --
Critical reflections on the idea of a god as creating living beings and the universe --
Buddhist general attitudes to other religions --
Conclusion.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-77).

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Cambridge, UK, New York, NY
Series
Cambridge elements. Religion and monotheism, Cambridge elements
Copyright Date
2019

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Dewey Decimal Class
294.3442
Library of Congress
BQ4600 .H37 2019,

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Pagination
vi, 77 pages
Number of pages
77

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Open Library
OL28413648M
ISBN 10
1108731376
ISBN 13
9781108731379, 9781108617123
OCLC/WorldCat
1108696002

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