Pain and Its Ending_ The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon

Abstract

Demonstrates how the four noble truths are used thorughout the Pali canon as a symbol of Buddha's enlightenment and as a doctrine within a larger network of Buddha's teachings. Their unique nature rests in their function as a proposition and as a symbol in the Theravada canon. This book is the first comprehensive study of the teaching as it appears in the Tipitaka, the canon of the Theravada Buddhism.