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Junjiro Takakusu

Author of The essentials of Buddhist philosophy

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Dr. Takakusu's only major work in English. Basic Buddhist terms are in English, Chinese, Sanskrit and index gives the diacritical marks of Pali and Sanskrit. He presents buddhist philosophy in a sequence of the systemization of the different schools of thought starting with Vasubandhu. He presented this summation of his lifetime study of Buddhist philosophy at the East-West Philosopher's Conference at the University of Hawaii where he delivered a series of lectures, summer 1939. It was show more published in 1944. show less

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