What the Buddha Thought - Richard Gombrich
Everything Is Burning: The Centrality of Fire in the Buddha's Thought
What the Buddha Thought - Richard Gombrich
Richard Gombrich
Oxford University
Description
This chapter is about how the Buddha reacted to Vedic ideas and practices concerning fire, and how this focus may have led him to what is perhaps his most important philosophical idea, the substitution of non-random processes for objects. It will provide more examples of how the Buddha reused brahminical religious terms, turning them to his own purposes.