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dc.contributor.authorCohen, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-21 13:54:12
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T09:54:30Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T09:54:30Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier1005833
dc.identifierOCN: 1135849683en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24298
dc.description.abstractThe vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study of Buddhism in these particular assumptions about the Buddha’s enlightenment and a particular understanding of religion, which is traced back through Western orientalists to the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation. Placing a distinct emphasis on Indian Buddhism, Richard Cohen adeptly creates a work that will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism and India and also scholars of religion and history.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRY Alternative belief systems::QRYC Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems::QRYC5 Theosophy and Anthroposophyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.othersapere
dc.subject.otheraude
dc.subject.otherdorje
dc.subject.othershugden
dc.subject.otherbodh
dc.subject.othergaya
dc.subject.otherworld
dc.subject.otherheritage
dc.subject.othermonument
dc.subject.otherconvention
dc.titleBeyond Enlightenment
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9780203098783
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.isbn9780415372947;9780415544443;9781134192052;9781134192045;9781134192007
oapen.identifier.ocn1135849683


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