On the Supposedly Liberating Function of the First Absorption
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.31649Keywords:
absorption, awakening, early Buddhism, concentration, insight, liberationAbstract
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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