Cult of Nothingness

by Roger-Pol Droit

Book Overview

The common Western understanding of Buddhism today envisions this major world religion as one of compassion and tolerance. But as Roger-Pol Droit reveals, this view bears little resemblance to one broadly held in the nineteenth-century European philosophical imagination that saw Buddhism as a religion of annihilation calling for the destruction of the self.

Originally published in France in 1997, this book traces the history of the Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807854492
• ISBN13: 9780807854495
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"