Buddhism: Its Essence and DevelopmentCourier Corporation, 2012 M07 16 - 240 pages "He has opened the stately grounds of scholarship to the public so that nothing of value and interest shall be missed. His readers are given an opportunity to understand something that has hitherto been only a mystery." — The Times (London) Literary Supplement |
Contents
Hinayana and Mahayana | 121 |
Literary Development | 123 |
The ideal Man of the Mabayana a Bodhisattva | 125 |
Emptiness | 130 |
Salvation | 135 |
Parallels | 140 |
THE BUDDHISM OF FAITH AND DEVOTION | 144 |
Literary History | 146 |
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Is Buddhism atheistic? | 38 |
The Four Holy Truths | 43 |
Cosmology | 48 |
MONASTIC BUDDHISM | 53 |
Poverty | 54 |
Monastic Celibacy | 58 |
Inoffensiveness | 61 |
The main currents of Monastic Thought | 66 |
POPULAR BUDDHISM | 70 |
Buddhism and the Temporal Power | 72 |
The Samghas Services | 77 |
The Influence of the Laity | 85 |
THE OLD WISDOM SCHOOL | 89 |
Sariputra | 90 |
Arhats | 93 |
Practices | 95 |
Moral Discipline | 96 |
Trance | 99 |
Wisdom | 105 |
Decline | 114 |
THE MAHAYANA AND THE NEW WISDOM SCHOOL | 119 |
The Agent of Salvation | 147 |
The Aims of the Faithful | 152 |
Methods | 157 |
Selfextinction and Faith | 159 |
THE YOGACARINS | 161 |
Literary History | 163 |
Mindonly | 166 |
Storeconsciousness | 168 |
Further Doctrines | 171 |
THE TANTRA OR MAGICAL BUDDHISM The Problem of the Tantra | 174 |
History of the Tantra | 176 |
Tantric Practices | 180 |
Tantric Philosophy | 188 |
Tantric Mythology | 189 |
Lefthanded Tantra | 191 |
The Control of the Body | 197 |
NONINDIAN DEVELOPMENTS | 200 |
Chan | 201 |
Amidism | 205 |
The Rnyinmapa | 207 |
European Buddhism | 210 |