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The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism

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The Point of View

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The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism book

The Point of View
ByPaul Fuller
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2004
eBook Published 31 December 2004
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203010433
Pages 264
eBook ISBN 9780203010433
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities
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Fuller, P. (2004). The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism: The Point of View (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203010433

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |13 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|27 pages

THE CONTENT OF WRONG-VIEW

chapter 2|37 pages

THE CONTENT OF RIGHT-VIEW

chapter 3|14 pages

THE WAY WRONG-VIEW FUNCTIONS

chapter 4|20 pages

THE WAY RIGHT-VIEW FUNCTIONS

chapter 5|33 pages

THE TRANSCENDENCE OF VIEWS

chapter 6|12 pages

VIEWS AND NON-ATTACHMENT

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