The Way to Nirvana

The Way to Nirvana
by L. de la Vallée Poussin
[1917]


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I want to thank my wife for pointing me to this article. Actually I stole it from her web site. She has a wonderful COPD Website and many blogs.

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This is an academic monograph on Nirvana by a French scholar. Poussin contrasts the Hindu and Buddhist views on the cycle of rebirth, and makes a case for original Buddhist concepts of reincarnation as being subtly different than the Hindu, where the soul remains essentially intact across incarnations. He compares the Buddhist view of rebirth to a forest fire (the soul) jumping a river (death), creating an entirely new fire on the other side of the river. He demonstrates the intersection of this topic with Buddhist cosmology, logic, philosophy and ethics. Poussin concludes by reviewing Buddhist techniques for approaching Nirvana.


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Title Page
Préface
Contents
Chapter I. Indian Disciplines of Salvation
Chapter II. The Buddhist Soul
Chapter III. Buddhist Definition of Karman
Chapter IV. The Doctrine of Karman and Transmigration, Cosmogony, Theogony
Chapter V. Nirvāṇa
Chapter VI. The Path To Nirvāṇa
Index

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