Anumodana -- Introductory explanation : the reason for writing this book -- Self vs. not-self is not an unsolvable riddle -- The pair of disputants -- The issue of dispute -- How the dispute expands -- Four principal issues of religious study -- Not-self on the philosophical level -- Buddhism goes beyond other religion due to the not-self principle -- The substance of the Buddha's not-self -- Views of not-self in other doctrines -- Wrong views of not-self. Puranakassapa ; Makkhaligosala ; Ajita kesakambala ; Pakudha kaccayana ; Sanjaya velatthaputta; Niganthanataputta -- View about not-self not considered as false -- The Vedanata view -- Comparison among all views -- The self that the Buddha rejects -- Self of ultimate-Dhamma practitioners -- Atman in the Bhagavadgita -- Atman in Jainism -- Supplementary view of a scholar -- Self in view of Western scholars. Charles Wesley ; Addison ; Longfellow ; Montgomery ; Wordsworth ; W.C. Somervilie ; Juvenal ; Jeremy Taylor ; Lord Averbury ; Level comparison of views.
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"A comparative study of self and non-self in Buddhism, Hinduism."