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Nirvana

Paperback • 2010 • English

Nirvana

By Steven Collins

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About the book

The idea of nirvana (Pali nibbana) is alluring but elusive for non-specialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new, accessible way - as a concept, as an image (metaphor), and as an element in the process of narrating both linear and cyclical time. Exploring nirvana from literary and philosophical perspectives, he argues that it has a specific role: to provide 'the sense of an ending' in both the systematic and the narrati...Show more

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ISBN

9780521708340

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Nirvana

Format

Paperback

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