Author: Aronson, Harvey B.
Title: Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism
Description: Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, (1986). Reprint, orig. cloth. 22x14cm, x,127 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: 'Buddha's Sympathy'; Timeliness of Buddha's Sympathy; Receiving Gifts out of Sympathy; ' Disciples' Sympathy'; Sympathy and Practice; Sympathy as Antidote; Simple Compassion and its Function; 'Loving'; The Loving Mind; The Loving Mind in Absorption; The Bodhisattva's Loving Mind; Disciples' Loving Activities; Instructions to Practice Loving Activities; Beneficiaries of Loving Activities; 'Love'; Acts of Love toward the Teacher; Love and Anger; the Power of Love; Benefits of Love; 'The Sublime Attitudes'; Order of Development; Faults of the Sublime Attitudes; Gotama' s Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity; 'Equanimity'; Scriptural Description of a Fully Liberated Being; Seperate Meanings; Detachment or Concern. Includes a 7-page English-Pali Glossary.

Keywords: Buddhism, Philosophy, Theravada, Compassion, Sympathy, Buddhist Theology, Religion, ,