Echoes From an Empty Sky: The Origins of the Buddhist Doctrine of the Two Truths by John B. Buescher, from Snow Lion, ISBN 1559392207. The doctrine of the two truths-conventional and ultimate-evolved as early as Buddhists struggled to reconcile apparent contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. Understood as a teaching on reality as opposed to a mere linguistic distinction, the doctrine played a key role for followers of Mahayana Buddhism in articulating the essential differences between their understanding and what they called the Hinayama view. Buescher avoids the usual exclusively Mahayana standpoint by examining the doctrine in the context of the Hinayana.
Echoes From an Empty Sky
Echoes From an Empty Sky: The Origins of the Buddhist Doctrine of the Two Truths by John B. Buescher, from Snow Lion, ISBN 1559392207. The doctrine of the two truths-conventional and ultimate-evolved as early as Buddhists struggled to reconcile apparent contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. Understood as a teaching on reality as opposed to a mere linguistic distinction, the doctrine played a key role for followers of Mahayana Buddhism in articulating the essential differences between their understanding and what they called the Hinayama view. Buescher avoids the usual exclusively Mahayana standpoint by examining the doctrine in the context of the Hinayana.