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Notion of Solitude in Pali Buddhist Literature: Finding a Space in the Crowd [Pehme köide]

(Independent scholar, UK)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 232x154x20 mm, kaal: 640 g, 10 bw illus
  • Ilmumisaeg: 11-Dec-2025
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350426105
  • ISBN-13: 9781350426108
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 232x154x20 mm, kaal: 640 g, 10 bw illus
  • Ilmumisaeg: 11-Dec-2025
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350426105
  • ISBN-13: 9781350426108
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Exploring how notions of solitude in Pali literature are encompassed in various literary forms, such as stock formulae, poetry, narrative, and imagery, this book includes close analysis of some of the most famous Buddhist verses about solitary practice.

Indaka Nishan Weerasekera considers how solitude is valued as one significant aspect of the Buddhist path, including how the imagery of landscape, especially the forest, serves to both inspire solitary practice as well as functions as a metaphor for meditation.

The author employs a cross-section of primary sources to explore the practical and psychological aspects of solitude in relation to Buddhist meditation, as well as relational/attitudinal concepts such as renunciation or desirelessness, independence, and self-reliance. This 'lonely' aspect of the Buddhist path sits alongside the 'communal' aspect of the Buddhist teachings. Together, they serve to maintain monastic harmony, while the 'social' aspect preserves monastic relations with wider society.

Arvustused

In this beautifully written thematic study, Weerasekera shows how solitude in Theravada Buddhism becomes a solace found in many places even in company. The therapeutic levels of being alone include physical separation, the revivifying qualities of the natural world, meditation, and liberating seclusion, from ones own past selves and hindrances. This work is both scholarly and restorative. * Sarah Shaw, Honorary Fellow, Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, UK *

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This book illuminates how various Pali expressions of solitude relate to one another and describe a continuum connecting renunciation with the final liberation from suffering.

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Lonely Becomes the Path: Renunciation and Community
2. Right Solitude and the Gradual Path
3. Alone at the End of the Path
4. 'Living Alone': The Khaggavisana-sutta and Tales of paccekabuddhas
5 .The Call to the Forest: Solitude and the Language of the Landscape
6. United in Mind, Separated by Body: Solitude and Companionship in Buddhist Narrative


Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Indaka Nishan Weerasekera is an independent scholar of Buddhist Studies, UK.