Culte Du Nʹeant
Author | : Roger-Pol Droit |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : UVA:X004632988 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Culte Du Nʹeant by : Roger-Pol Droit
Download or read book Culte Du Nʹeant written by Roger-Pol Droit and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Droit traces the history of the Western understanding of Buddhism following the late 18th-century beginnings of the translation of the Buddhist canon. He reveals how major 19th-century Western philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Schlegel, Hegel, and others in fact misinterpreted the Buddha's teaching of nirvana as a life-detesting and negative annihilation of the the individual.