The authority of the Buddha: The limits of knowledge in medieval Indian Buddhist epistemology.
The Indian religious traditions, including Buddhism, are generally characterised by an understanding of the problematic character of the human condition as ignorance (avidya) instead of sin, as in Christianity. The centrality of ignorance in defining the problematic character of the human condition...
| Publicado en: | Acta Orientalia Vilnensia Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 13 - 37 |
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Vilnius University
2010
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