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Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism The Point of View
By: Paul Fuller

Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism


 
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ISBN: 0700715940


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The notion of 'view' or 'opinion' (ditthi) as an obstacle to 'seeing things as they are' is a central concept in Buddhist thought. This book considers the two ways in which the notion of views are usually understood. Are we to understand right-view as a correction of wrong-views (the opposition understanding) or is the aim of the Buddhist path the overcoming of all views, even right-view (the no-views understanding)? The author argues that neither approach is correct. Instead he suggests that the early texts do not understand right-view as a correction of wrong-view, but as a detached order of seeing, completely different from the attitude of holding to any view, wrong or right.

Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism The Point of View, Paul Fuller RoutledgeCurzon, Paperback, 257 pages, $44.95

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