The Notion of Solitude in Pali Buddhist Literature : Finding a Space in the Crowd

The book explores a diversity of sources to explore how solitary or forest-based practices are celebrated in some parts of the Pali 'imaginaire'. It provides a detailed and sustained analysis of a Buddhist understanding of solitude from one of its early textual traditions, and illuminates the paradox between two apparently 'competing' lifestyles of community and seclusion and discuss their relation and interplay--

• | Author: Indaka Nishan Weerasekera
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Jun 27, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1350426067
• | ISBN-13: 9781350426061