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Reflections on language, culture and social identity
John Peacock The Buddha repeatedly points out in the course of his teaching career that all languages are cultural constructs and that the relationship between the signs that constitute a language, and what is signified by those signs is purely conventional. He also recognized the role that language plays in conditioning what we might refer […]
Reading lists
Below you will find a series of bibliographies (pdf) with recommended reading, grouped according to topics: Essentials – for students of Mindfulness and Buddhist Psychology 12 titles: Buddhist Background – Buddhist Psychology – Four Establishments of mindfulness Early Buddhism and Early Buddhist Teachings Early Buddhism: Translations of Canonical & Paracanonical Pali Texts Other Early Indian […]