[Buddha-l] Re: Attan.com

[John Whalen-Bridge]

I think it's in "Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Real Happiness" that Robert Thurman argues for a Buddhist conception of
the soul.  I've not got it in front of me, but my recollection is that,
according to INNER REVOLUTION, suicides who believe themselves to be
escaping bad consequences of their acts on the grounds of there being
"no self" are in for an unpleasant surprise--a position Thurman supports
with reference to Tibetan sources.   JWB


Message: 5
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:48:03 -0500
From: Joel Tatelman <tatelman at sympatico.ca>
To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
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>valuable philological and translation work in Pali, published, in her 
>later years, a book dedicated to arguing for the reality and centrality

>of the soul in "original" Buddhist thought. Her opinion, too, was that 
>later monk-dominated, ecclesiastical Buddhism "reified" the 
>anatman/anatta doctrine and made it into the "no-soul" doctrine. I 
>believe that a scholar by the name of Bhattacarya published a rather 
>more scholarly book on this topic; I think it was in the late 1960s.
>So, yeah, there's a history--not to mention the Pudgalavadins, whatever

>one may think of them--of people "within Buddhism" having trouble with 
>the anatman doctrine.
Cheers,  Joel Tatelman.

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