Voice of the Buddha: Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words

by Maria Heim

What would a Buddhist theory of texts look like through the lens of the 5th-century thinker Buddhaghosa? In Voice of the Buddha, Maria Heim reads from the principal commentator, editor, and translator of the Theravada intellectual tradition, yielding fresh insight into all three collections of the early Pali texts: Vinaya, the Suttas, and the Abhidhamma. Buddhaghosa considered the Buddha to be omniscient, the Buddha's words to be "oceanic." Every...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190906650
• ISBN13: 9780190906658
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"