eBooks - Education - Education - Paul Fuller - Notion of ditthi in Theravada Buddhism
Notion of ditthi in Theravada Buddhism eBook
by Paul Fuller
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Notion of ditthi in Theravada Buddhism Summary
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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. Arguing that by the term "right-view" we should understand an order of seeing which transcends all views, this book makes a valuable addition to the study of Buddhist philosophy. |
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