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The ‘External World’: Its Status and Relevance in the Pali Nikāyas

✍ Scribed by Sue Hamilton

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
237 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0048-721X

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✦ Synopsis

It is usually accepted that although cosmological references in the early Pali Buddhist texts refer metaphorically to meditative states of mind, they should at the same time be understood as referring in literal terms to an externally existent cosmos. Because the ontological status of the cosmos appears to be tangential to what the Buddha taught, however, it is not clear that this literal interpretation is appropriate. From a study of the early textual material, this paper suggests that an alternative understanding of the cosmos is more compatible with the Buddha's teachings.

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