期刊名称：DISKUS: The Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR)
印刷版ISSN：0967-8948
出版年度：2011
卷号：12
页码：38-48
出版社：British Association for the Study of Religions
摘要：This work, aimed both at scholars and the wider public,1is based on the 2006 Numata Lectures, at London's School of Oriental and African Studies, of Richard Gombrich, founder and President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. Seeking to identify the key contributions to human civilization of the Buddha as athinker, the focus is thefirst four Nikāyasand to a lesser extent the fifth Nikāyaand the Vinayaof the Pali Canon. The method is historical and, looking beneath later commentarial glosses and Abhidhamma systematisation, Gombrich seeks to understand the main thrust of the Buddha's teaching within the context in which it was developed and delivered: in dialogue with and in response to Jain and especially Brahminical ideas and practices, with an awareness of cultural differences, and in a socio-economic context that helped to make a range of people particularly ready to respond positively to what he taught (p. 195).
