A work of Buddhist exposition in English, written by a Sri Lankan bhikkhu and issued by Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house that publishes in both Sinhala and English.
The title points to the doctrine of momentariness — the teaching that phenomena arise and pass away moment by moment — which is handled in the Abhidhamma and in the commentarial tradition that Sri Lankan Theravada scholarship has carried for centuries. Readers who have met the idea under the Pali term khanika will recognise the ground. The word "momentism" itself is the author's chosen English rendering, and that choice tells you something about the book: it is a monastic writer putting a technical area of doctrine into English prose rather than a Western academic study of it.
That makes it of interest to readers who want Theravada teaching in the voice of the tradition itself — practitioners, meditators, and students of Buddhist philosophy who already read in this field and want Sri Lankan monastic writing rather than secondary commentary.
Written and printed in Sri Lanka, in English throughout, so no knowledge of Sinhala or Pali is required, though some familiarity with Buddhist terms will help.
- Author: Ven.Nakkawatte Asarana Sarana Buddhaparayana Himi
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: English
- Pages: 128
- ISBN: 9789553098856
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