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Nous and nirvana: conversations with Plotinus--an essay in Buddhist cosmology.(Essay)
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Intellect is certainly beautiful, and the most beautiful of all; its place is in pure light and pure radiance ... (this) fullness. (1)
Preface
In the Classical world the language of cosmology was a means for framing philosophical concerns, and among these were issues of time, motion, and soul; concepts of the limited and the unlimited; and the nature and basis of number. Among the Greeks, philosophical cosmology was central to the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus, among others. This is no less true of Indian thought--Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Ajivika--where ...
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