Buddhism, Philosophy, History. On Eugène Burnouf's Simple Sūtras.
Philosophy has long become a key term in the study of Buddhism, defining the moral and rational essence of the Buddha's teaching, emblematic of its Indian origins. In this essay, I suggest that the relation of Buddhism and philosophy, which prior to the mid-nineteenth century was framed as the relat...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Indian Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 473 - 512 |
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