title: What the Buddha Thought (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs)
author: Richard Gombrich
description: Richard Gombrich is founder and Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, and Chairman of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies. Before his retirement in 2004, he held the Boden Chair of Sanskrit at Oxford University and a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College for 28 years. He supervised nearly 50 theses on Buddhist topics, and is the author of 200 publications. He continues to lecture and teach at universities round the world.
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  What the Buddha Thought
  
  
  
  
  
  Richard Gombrich
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  What the Buddha Thought
  
  
  
  
  
  Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs Series Editor: Richard Gombrich
  
  
  
  
  
  The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies promotes teaching and research into all
  Buddhist traditions, as found in texts and in societies, and is equally open
  to the study of Buddhism by methods associated with the humanities (philology,
  philosophy, history) and the social sciences (anthropology, sociology,
  politics). It insists only on using sources in their original languages and on
  aiming at the highest scholarly standards.
  
  
  
  
  
  Previously published by Routledge
  
  
  
  
  
  Richard F. Gombrich, How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early
  Teachings, 2nd edition
  
  
  
  
  
  Soon-il Hwang, Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism: The Doctrinal History of
  Nirvana
  
  
  
  
  
  Tse-fu Kuan, Mindfulness in Early Buddhism: New Approaches through Psychology
  and Textual Analysis, of Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit Sources
  
  
  
  
  