03212nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-031-55873-3 DE-He213 20251030112033.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240509s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031558733 978-3-031-55873-3 10.1007/978-3-031-55873-3 doi BQ1-9800 HRE bicssc REL007000 bisacsh QRF thema Nanda, Amrita. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 76571 The Theory of the Four Stages of Liberation in Pāli Literature [electronic resource] / by Amrita Nanda. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 347 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction -- 2. The Stage of Stream-Entry -- 3. The Stage of Non-returning -- 4. The Stage of Arahantship -- 5. The Four Stages as a Collective Set in the Pāli Nikāyas -- 6. Development of the Sub-stages -- 7. The Four Stages in the Context of the Liberating Experience of the Buddha and the Early Buddhist Disciples -- 8. The Theory of the Four Stages with Regard to Socio-religious Contexts -- 9. The Four Stages Forming an Integrated Soteriological Path Scheme in Pāli Abhidhamma and Pāli Commentarial Literature -- 10. The Four Stages Exalted to Peak of Spiritual Attainment in Pāli Abhidhamma and Pāli Commentarial Literature -- 11. Conclusion. This book investigates the origins and development of the theory of four stages of liberation in Pāli literature. This theory is an important soteriological cartography in early Buddhism, particularly Theravāda Buddhism. Amrita Nanda challenges the traditional interpretation of the four stages by recognizing the impact of the changing socio-religious factors on the theory’s origins and subsequent development. Based primarily on the Pali literary sources, this study utilizes sometimes-overlooked aspects of these texts. This book first traces the origins of each stage individually; then, it traces the formation of the theory and its subsequent development. Amrita Nanda is a lecturer at the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Buddhism. 76572 Religion and sociology. 68604 Religions. 70064 Buddhism. 76572 Sociology of Religion. 68606 Comparative Religion. 74036 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031558726 Printed edition: 9783031558740 Printed edition: 9783031558757 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55873-3 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 59736 59736