Beginnings : collected essays of S.Bodhesako.

By:

Bodhesako, S

Material type: Text

TextKandy : Buddhist Publication Society, 2008Description: 252 pages, 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

978-9552403101

Subject(s):

Buddhist literature

Online resources:

ebook available here

Summary: This book contains all the known published and unpublished essays by S. Bodhesako: Beginnings, Change, The Buddha and Catch-22, The Myth of Sisyphus, Faith, and Being and Craving. In the first essay, Beginnings, the author discusses the authenticity and relevance of the Buddhist Canon. The second essay, Change, investigates the concepts of change, impermanence and time in relation to experience and argues against equating them with the concept of flux or continuous change. In the third essay, The Buddha and Catch-22, the similarities between Joseph Heller s novel and the Buddha s Teaching are discussed. The next essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, is a Buddhist reinterpretation of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, which is symbolizing the endless, recurring nature of our tasks. Ven. Bodhesako also discusses Albert Camus interpretation of this myth. The essay Faith investigates the relevance of faith in the Buddha s Teaching, while the last essay, Being and Craving, deals with the Buddhist concept of craving and its traditional interpretation. - From Amazon.

Holdings ( 2 )
Title notes ( 1 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Lindholme Hall Library General stacks	Theravada Buddhism	240 BOD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		2400526
eBook	Lindholme Hall Library			Available

This book contains all the known published and unpublished essays by S. Bodhesako: Beginnings, Change, The Buddha and Catch-22, The Myth of Sisyphus, Faith, and Being and Craving. In the first essay, Beginnings, the author discusses the authenticity and relevance of the Buddhist Canon. The second essay, Change, investigates the concepts of change, impermanence and time in relation to experience and argues against equating them with the concept of flux or continuous change. In the third essay, The Buddha and Catch-22, the similarities between Joseph Heller s novel and the Buddha s Teaching are discussed. The next essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, is a Buddhist reinterpretation of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, which is symbolizing the endless, recurring nature of our tasks. Ven. Bodhesako also discusses Albert Camus interpretation of this myth. The essay Faith investigates the relevance of faith in the Buddha s Teaching, while the last essay, Being and Craving, deals with the Buddhist concept of craving and its traditional interpretation. - From Amazon.