Buddhist Studies Review 20.2 (2003)

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Various
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Studies

On the Supposedly Liberating Function of the First Absorption

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 271-280
Author(s):  
Bhikkhu Analayo
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Studies

This article offers a critical reply to the proposal by Arbel (in Buddhist Studies Review 32(2), 2015) that the attainment of the first absorption has in itself a liberating function in the early Buddhist path to awakening.

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