03012nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001600185072002300201072001500224100008300239245011200322250001800434264007900452300003500531336002600566337002600592338003600618347002400654505067200678520076601350650002102116650003502137650002202172650002102194650003402215650003302249710003402282773002602316776003602342776003602378776003602414856004602450912001402496912001502510999001702525978-3-031-55873-3DE-He21320251030112033.0cr nn 008mamaa240509s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315587339978-3-031-55873-37 a10.1007/978-3-031-55873-32doi 4aBQ1-9800 7aHRE2bicssc 7aREL0070002bisacsh 7aQRF2thema1 aNanda, Amrita.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97657114aThe Theory of the Four Stages of Liberation in Pāli Literatureh[electronic resource] /cby Amrita Nanda.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIII, 347 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1. 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.  aThis 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. 0aBuddhism.976572 0aReligion and sociology.968604 0aReligions.97006414aBuddhism.97657224aSociology of Religion.96860624aComparative Religion.9740362 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303155872608iPrinted edition:z978303155874008iPrinted edition:z978303155875740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55873-3  aZDB-2-REP  aZDB-2-SXPR  c59736d59736