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Article: Myriad Worlds: Buddhist Cosmology in Abhidharma, Kalacakra and Dzog-chen.(Review) (book review)
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- Philosophy East and West
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- April 1, 1999
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Myriad Worlds: Buddhist Cosmology in Abhidharma, Kalacakra and Dzog-chen. By Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye. Translated and edited by the International Translation Committee founded by the V. V. Kalu Rinpoche. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1995. Pp. 301.
It is well known that the Buddhist tradition universally rejects the notion of a creator-god. Yet this fact alone does not imply that Buddhists have been uninterested in cosmology. On the contrary, the student of Buddhism inevitably finds that complex theories concerning the structure and evolution of the universe are ubiquitous throughout the tradition, and that an understanding of these theories is indispensable ...