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Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities
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Steven Collins
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December 18 2009
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Cambridge University Press
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9780511520655
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December 18 2009
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May 13 1998
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Book chapters
pp. xi
Preface and acknowledgments
pp. 1
General introduction: Buddhism and civilizational history 1 – structures and processes
pp. 121
Introduction to part 1: systematic and narrative thought - eternity and closure in structure and story
pp. 135
The concept of nirvana
pp. 191
The imagery of nirvana
pp. 234
Nirvana, time and narrative
pp. 282
Conclusion to part 1: modes of thought, modes of tradition
pp. 289
Introduction to part 2: utopia and the ideal society
pp. 297
Heaven, the land of Cockaygne and Arcadia
pp. 346
Millennialism
pp. 414
The perfect moral commonwealth? Kingship and its discontents
pp. 497
The Vessantara Jātaka
pp. 555
Conclusion to part 2: in what sense can one speak of Buddhist utopianism?
pp. 563
General conclusion: Buddhism and civilizational history 2 – reprise
pp. 635
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