Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined

by Steven Collins

Book Overview

This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravāda Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act. Steven Collins argues that Buddhist philosophy should be approached in the spirit of its historical teachers and visionaries, who saw themselves not as preservers of an archaic body of rules but as part of a timeless effort to understand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231197217
• ISBN13: 9780231197212
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"