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| #1249575 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 2010-04-30 | 2010-03-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.43 x5.98l,.75 | File type: PDF | 204 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Nirvana as concept, image and narrative|By Ed|In this book, Nirvana: Concept, Imagery, Narrative, Steven Collins pursues a number of approaches that a general reader could pursue in order to make sense of the Buddhist principle of nirvana. He does so by framing nirvana in categories familiar to the western mind.
Chapter one, "Syetematic and Narrative Thought" is rat||'... an academically thorough and, I would dare to say, passionate exploration into a concept that invites description and evocation but is beyond both.' Buddhist Studies
'... for those whose main interest is in appreciating or teaching Collins's
The idea of nirvana (Pali nibbāna) is alluring but elusive for non-specialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new, accessible way - as a concept, as an image (metaphor), and as an element in the process of narrating both linear and cyclical time. Exploring nirvana from literary and philosophical perspectives, he argues that it has a specific role: to provide 'the sense of an ending' in both the ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Nirvana: Concept, Imagery, Narrative | Steven Collins. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
