The Way to Nirvana: Six lectures on Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvatio

by Louis de La Vallée-Poussin

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.

Genres: Buddhism

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1917

About the author

Louis Étienne Joseph Marie Levieux de La Vallée-Poussin was an Indologist and scholar of Buddhist Studies.

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[Samuel Edwards]

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Ist gut lesen

[Marian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marvellous!