On Being Buddha

On Being BuddhaWhat is it like to be a Buddha? Is there only one Buddha or are there many? What can Buddhas do and what do they know? Is there anything they cannot do and cannot know? These and associated questions were much discussed by Buddhist thinkers in India, and a complex and subtle set of doctrinal positions was developed to deal with them. This is the first book in a western language to treat these doctrines about Buddha from a philosophical and thoroughly

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interdisciplinary account of the politics of diplomatic training and appeals to both scholarly and practitioner audiences

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This collection of essays examines the principal issues as they relate to the main phases of formal education

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The subsequent contributions by notable scholars in various fields demonstrate the richness and open-endedness of his work