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Publish Date
August 3, 2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA,
Clarendon Press,
OUP Oxford
Language
English
Pages
256
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Table of Contents
Detailed Contents... ix
Introduction... 1
Part I. Soul-searchers and Sooth-sayers...11
___1. Hidden in the Cave: The Upanisadic Self...13
___2. Dangerous Truths: The Buddha on Silence, Secrecy and Snakes...39
___3. A Cloak of Clever Words: The Deconstruction of Deceit in the Mahabharata... 61
Part II. Exhortations to Enlightenment... 95
___4. Words That Burn: Why Did the Buddha Say What He Did?... 97
___5. Words That Break: Can an Upanisad State the Truth?... 125
Part III. A Selfless Person's Sense of Self... 155
___6. The Imperfect Reality of Persons... 157
___7. Self as Performance... 185
Appendices... 217
Texts and Abbreviations... 237
Bibliography... 245
Chronological Table of Main Thinkers and Texts... 259
Index Locorum
General Index
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
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