The Buddhist Empiricism Thesis: FRANK J. HOFFMAN

Religious Studies 18 (2):151-158 (1982)
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In what follows I argue for two interrelated theses: that early Buddhism is not a form of empiricism, and that consequently there is no basis for an early Buddhist apologetic which contrasts an empirical early Buddhism with either a metaphysical Hinduism on the one hand, or with a baseless Christianity on the other

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