Description:This series provides accessible resources in Buddhist Studies on all aspects of the Buddhist tradition by employing methodological approaches as well as historical, textual, and contemporary studies without presupposing specialist linguistic knowledge and skills in understanding Buddhism. This volume enables discourses of the Pali canon express themselves. It provides introductory material to facilitate readers' understanding. After the study of each sutta it provides study questions that enhance reading comprehension and facilitate philosophical inquiry. A glossary provides explanations of Pali words and philosophical concepts. Materials are organized on key topics such as logic and truth, epistemology and metaphysics and ethics. It treats early Buddhism as a way of life.