Alone with others : an existential approach to Buddhism

✍ Scribed by Batchelor, Stephen

• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 143
• Series: Grove Press Eastern philosophy and literature series
• Edition: First Evergreen edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Inspired by Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattava's way of life, the oral instructions of living Buddhist masters, Martin Heidegger's classic Being and time, and the writings of the Christian theologians Paul Tillich and John MacQuarrie," this is a "contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations."--Cover.

Abstract: "Inspired by Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattava's way of life, the oral instructions of living Buddhist masters, Martin Heidegger's classic Being and time, and the writings of the Christian theologians Paul Tillich and John MacQuarrie," this is a "contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations."--Cover

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Having and being --
The task of clarification --
Being-alone --
Being-with --
Wisdom and method --
The optimum mode of being.

✦ Subjects

Buddhism -- Doctrines. Boeddhisme.