BOOK SUMMARY OF KURMA PURANA PT. 1 (AITM VOL. 20):ANCIENT INDIAN TRADITION AND
MYTHOLOGY (VOL. 20)
Here is a study of rationality and mind based on the earliest recorded stratum
of Buddhism, the Pali Nikayas. The author makes a distintion between what can be
said from within the context of the Buddhist texts themselves and what can be
spoken of from the point of view of contemporary philosophy of religion. The
author is at once sympathetic to Early Buddhism as a system of religious belief
and attentive to its philosophical difficulties. The volume is primarily
addressed to students of Buddhism. Scholars and researchers in the