Saccakiriya : the belief in the power of true speech in Theravada Buddhist tradition
Electronic Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
2012
Information About
This book is a revised version of the author's doctoral thesis, which was completed at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The author seeks to show that the belief in the power of true speech is common in the Theravada tradition.
Additional Details
- Title
- Saccakiriya : the belief in the power of true speech in Theravada Buddhist tradition
- Creators
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- Kong, Choy Fah
- Subject
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- Theravāda Buddhism--Doctrines
- Truth--Religious aspects--Buddhism
- Relics
- Publisher
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- KONG Choy Fah, 2012
- Kong Choy Fah , 2012
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, 162 KB, 37 p.
- Table of Contents
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- Seeing and thinking from a simple equation -- Reasons for writing -- What this work will talk about -- The material -- What others have said about the basis for the belief in true speech -- My theory of the basis: a simple equation and an empirically verifiable experience -- The initial development of the belief -- Means: the phenomenological approach -- Working method: the common procedure -- Limitations of the research -- Concluding remarks.
- Copyright
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- All rights reserved. Kong Choy Fah, 2012