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Buddhism and the God-Idea: Selected Texts
Author Nyanaponika Thera (編)
EditionBPS Online Edition
Date1962
Pages48
PublisherBuddhist Publication Society
Publisher Url http://www.bps.lk/
LocationKandy, Sri Lanka [康堤, 斯里蘭卡]
SeriesWheel Publication
Series No.47
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
Table of contentsTable of Contents
Title page 2
Buddhism and the God-Idea 4
The Texts 13
Origin of the Belief in a Creator God 13
The Inexplicable God 15
Blind Faith 18
The String of Blind Men 19
The Staircase to Nowhere 20
Praying for the Beyond 20
Revealed Religion 22
The Buddhist Saint (Arahat) and the God-Idea 23
God Belief and Fatalism 25
The Transient Deity 26
The Disillusionment of the Gods 27
Brahmā Admits His Transiency 28
God’s Responsibility 29
Creation and Cause 30
Refutation of the Absolute Creator 31
Śāntideva 32
Śāntarakṣita 34
From Chapter II—Doctrine of God 34
1. The One and the Many (Paley’s “Watchmaker” Argument) 34
2. The Eternal Cannot be Productive 34
3. An Unobstructed Divine Cause Requires Simultaneous Creation From Chapter 6 Doctrine of the Puruṣa (Spirit, Personality) as Cause of the World 38
Notes 41
ISSN00497541 (P)
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Created date2017.02.23
Modified date2022.03.11



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