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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha
Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities
A wide-ranging study of how nirvana and ideas of happiness and order were represented in the Pali texts and in the societies of premodern South and Southeast Asia. Collins reads the Pali literature as an 'imaginaire' that shaped a whole civilisation.











