Identity and Experience: The Constitution of the Human Being According to Early Buddhism

by Sue Hamilton

Genres: Buddhism

218 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Sue Hamilton is a British archaeologist who is a Professor of Prehistory at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

A specialist in Later European Prehistory, she has published various papers and academic books on the subject based upon her own research.

Reviews

[Pandit · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an academic work studying sutta definitions of the 5 khandha in Pali texts.
If that's what you are after then it deserves a full compliment of stars.
Hamilton's main thesis is that the teaching on the 5 aggregates refers to living experience rather than being an ontological description of the world. She stops short of a purely phenomenological stance however.
Most interesting IMO is the discussion on nama-rupa, which takes a good stab at defining and describing this difficult term.