{"product_id":"buescher-origins-of-doctrine-of-the-two-truths-pdf","title":"Buescher Origins of Doctrine of the Two Truths (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Complete Title is Echoes from an Empty Sky. The Origins of the Buddhist doctrine of the Two Truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eBuddhists long ago developed a doctrine of two truths—conventional truth and ultimate truth. They have understood this doctrine in two ways. The first—which appears to have been its original meaning—referred to the sorts of true statements that the Buddha made: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003ehis “worldly,” sometimes ambiguous, conventional discourse, and his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003estatements or discourse that plainly referred to the ultimate truth. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003esecond way referred to the sorts of objects in the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eThis early development of the doctrine of two truths is traced here. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eBriefly. Each of the many early schools of Buddhism used the doctrine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003ein internecine debates to distinguish what it saw as the Buddha’s highest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eteachings from what it believed other schools had mistaken as ultimate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003etruths, or had invented altogether\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eThe second way that Buddhists have understood the doctrine of two \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003etruths was as categories of all the objects in the universe or as the modes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eof objective reality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46264595939464,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/BuescherOriginsofDoctrineoftheTwoTruths2copy.png?v=1785611759","url":"https:\/\/namobuddhapublications.org\/products\/buescher-origins-of-doctrine-of-the-two-truths-pdf","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}