BUDDHIST ROMANTICISM

Buddhist Romanticism by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) Copyright copyright 2015 ṭhānissaro bhikkhu This work is licensed under the Creative Commons

CHAPTER ONE Dramatis Personae On a very broad level, the Buddha and the German Romantics share two points of resemblance.

CHAPTER TWO An Ancient Path The Buddha did not invent the Dhamma. As he said, he discovered an ancient path

CHAPTER THREE An Age of Tendencies In contrast to the Buddha, the early Romantics intentionally focused on creating a body

CHAPTER FOUR The Romantic Universe In Germany of the late 1790’s, there was nothing unusual in the fact that the

CHAPTER FIVE Romantic Religion Friedrich Schleiermacher, in the conversations that issued in his book, Talks on Religion for Its Cultured Despisers (1799),

CHAPTER SIX The Transmission of Romantic Religion People at present rarely read Schleiermacher. Most have never even heard of his

CHAPTER SEVEN Buddhist Romanticism Buddhist Romanticism is a result of a very natural human tendency: When presented with something foreign

APPENDIX Unromantic Dhamma THE DISCOVERY OF THE DHAMMA § 1. “It’s just as if a man, traveling along a wilderness track,

Glossary Arahant: A “worthy one” or “pure one;” a person whose mind is free of defilement and thus is not destined

Abbreviations AN Aṅguttara Nikāya Dhp Dhammapada DN Dīgha Nikāya Iti Itivuttaka Khp Khuddakapāṭha MN Majjhima Nikāya SN Saṁyutta Nikāya Sn

Endnotes CHAPTER ONE 1. Beiser, Frederick C. German Idealism, p. 419­–420. 2. Frank, Manfred. The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism, p. 161.

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