Religious experience in Buddhism

David Burton

doi:10.1017/9781108575119.013

Religious experience in Buddhism

David Burton

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
Editors	Paul K. Moser, Chad Meister
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
ISBN (Print)	9781108575119
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108575119.013
Publication status	Published - 20 Jun 2020

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Buddhism
Religious experience

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