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List of Tables and Figure |
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xii | (1) |
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xiii | (4) |
A Note on Buddhist Languages |
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INTRODUCTION |
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1 | (6) |
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1. THE BUDDHA: THE STORY OF THE AWAKENED ONE |
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7 | (28) |
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7 | (9) |
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16 | (11) |
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27 | (8) |
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2. THE WORD OF THE BUDDHA: BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES AND SCHOOLS |
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35 | (24) |
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Dharma: texts, practice, and realization |
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35 | (4) |
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The first recitation of scriptures |
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39 | (6) |
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45 | (4) |
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The origin of the ancient Buddhist schools |
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49 | (7) |
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56 | (3) |
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3. FOUR TRUTHS: THE DISEASE, THE CAUSE, THE CURE, THE MEDICINE |
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59 | (26) |
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The orientation of the Buddha's teaching |
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59 | (1) |
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60 | (8) |
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The origin of suffering: attachment, aversion, and delusion |
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68 | (6) |
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The cessation of suffering: nirvana |
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74 | (5) |
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The way leading to the cessation of suffering |
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79 | (6) |
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4. THE BUDDHIST COMMUNITY: MONKS, NUNS, AND LAY FOLLOWERS |
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85 | (27) |
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The Buddha's followers and the origin of the Buddhist order |
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85 | (2) |
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Ordination and the Buddhist monastic ideal |
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87 | (4) |
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The underlying concerns of the Vinaya |
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91 | (4) |
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From wandering to settled life |
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95 | (6) |
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101 | (6) |
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107 | (3) |
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Spiro's schema: apotropaic, kammatic, and nibbanic Buddhism |
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110 | (2) |
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5. THE BUDDHIST COSMOS: THE THRICE-THOUSANDFOLD WORLD |
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112 | (21) |
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Of space and time: world-systems |
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112 | (7) |
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Cosmology and psychology: macrocosm and microcosm |
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119 | (7) |
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Cosmology, folk religion, and modern science |
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126 | (7) |
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6. No SELF: PERSONAL CONTINUITY AND DEPENDENT ARISING |
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133 | (30) |
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The Buddhist critique of self as unchanging |
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133 | (7) |
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The problem of personal continuity |
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140 | (6) |
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Ignorance, attachment, and views of the self |
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146 | (3) |
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The elaboration of the teaching of dependent arising |
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149 | (10) |
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Did the Buddha deny the existence of the self? |
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159 | (4) |
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7. THE BUDDHISM PATH: THE WAY OF CALM AND INSIGHT |
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163 | (39) |
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163 | (2) |
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165 | (4) |
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169 | (5) |
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The practice of calm meditation |
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174 | (13) |
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The stages of insight meditation |
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187 | (11) |
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The relationship of calm and insight |
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198 | (4) |
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8. THE ABHIDHARMA: THE HIGHER TEACHING |
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202 | (22) |
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Stories, legends, texts, and authors |
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202 | (5) |
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The Abhidharma as a system of Buddhist thought |
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207 | (8) |
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The consciousness process, karma, and rebirth |
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215 | (3) |
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218 | (6) |
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9. THE MAHAYANA: THE GREAT VEHICLE |
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224 | (29) |
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The beginnings of the Mahayana |
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224 | (2) |
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The vehicle of the bodhisattva |
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226 | (5) |
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231 | (3) |
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Emptiness and the `perfection of wisdom' |
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234 | (3) |
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Nagarjuna and the `middle' (Madhyamaka) school |
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237 | (7) |
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`Ideas only' (vijnapti-matra) and the Yogacara |
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244 | (6) |
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250 | (3) |
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10. EVOLVING TRADITIONS OF BUDDHISM: SOUTH, EAST, NORTH, AND WEST |
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253 | (24) |
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Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and South-East Asia: Southern Buddhism |
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253 | (4) |
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China, Korea, and Japan: East Asian Buddhism |
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257 | (9) |
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Tibet and Mongolia: Northern Buddhism |
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266 | (7) |
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A final note: Buddhism in the West |
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273 | (4) |
Notes |
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277 | (25) |
Select Bibliography |
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302 | (17) |
Glossary |
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319 | (4) |
Index |
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