Religious Experience in Buddhism

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8 - Religious Experience in Buddhism

from Part III - Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2020

David Burton

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Paul K. Moser and

Chad Meister

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Paul K. Moser: Affiliation:
Loyola University, Chicago
Chad Meister: Affiliation:
Bethel University, Indiana

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Burton highlights the complexity of Buddhist attitudes to religious experience, thus challenging a western overemphasis on the role of personal experience and subjective factors in Buddhist religious experience, to the neglect of such social factors as rituals and scriptural components. He considers whether the Buddhist doctrine of no enduring, unchanging self can be justified by introspective experience, and he observes that this is a matter of controversy among Buddhist scholars.

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Religious experience Buddhism Enlightenment Buddhist doctrine Self Introspection Ritual Scripture

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience , pp. 187 - 207

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108575119.013 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2020

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