Experience, Imagination, and Explanation: What Is Special about Buddhist Soteriology?

Abstract

In this paper, we want to offer arguments in support of the view that Buddhist soteriology is based on a set of culturally independent forms of alternate states of consciousness which are interpreted, however, in a unique way. The interpretation denies the substance-attribute structure of the world, the structure which informs our perception, thinking and oral expression concerning the world, and which all other religious traditions take for granted.