A Buddhist Critique of Desire: The Notion of Kāma in Aśvaghoṣa's Saundarananda.
The critical analysis of desire is a staple of classical Buddhist thought; however, modern scholarship has focused primarily on doctrinal and scholastic texts that explain the Buddhist understanding of desire. As a result, the contribution of kāvya (poetry) to the classical Buddhist philosophy of de...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Indian Philosophy Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 143 - 161 |
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