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A Manual of Buddhist Cosmology / McGovern, William Montgomery
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A Manual of Buddhist Cosmology
McGovern, William Montgomery
 
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  Book ID : 42921
  ISBN-10 : 81-307-1728-X / 813071728X
  ISBN-13 : 978-81-307-1728-9 / 9788130717289
  Place of Publication : Delhi
  Year of Publication : 2015
  Edition : (First Edition)
  Language : English
  240p., 23 cm.
   
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The Buddhist cosmology which is presented in commentaries and works of Abhidharma in both Theravada and Mahayana traditions is the end-product of an analysis and reconciliation of cosmological comments found in the Buddhist sutra and vinaya traditions. No single sûtra sets out the entire structure of the universe. However, in several sutras the Buddha describes other worlds and states of being, and other sûtras describe the origin and destruction of the universe. The synthesis of these data into a single comprehensive system must have taken place early in the history of Buddhism. The picture of the world presented in Buddhist cosmological descriptions cannot be taken as a literal description of the shape of the universe. It is inconsistent, and cannot be made consistent, with astronomical data that were already known in ancient India. However, it is not intended to be a description of how ordinary humans perceive their world; rather, it is the universe as seen through the "divine eye" by which a Buddha or an arhat who has cultivated this faculty can perceive all of the other worlds and the beings arising (being born) and passing away (dying) within them, and can tell from what state they have been reborn and into what state they will be reborn. McGovern has given us an excellent introduction to the subject. For the record the author of this fine and much needed volume – WILLIAM MONTGO -

MERY McGOVERN, Ph.D. (OXON.), was Lecturer in Japanese and Chinese at the School of Oriental Studies, University of London; as well as the Priest of the Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, Japan. He also authored "Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism", "Modern Japan", and "Colloquial Japanese", etc.

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