| Description |
250 pages : illustrataions ; 18 cm |
| Series |
Penguin classics ; L88 |
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Penguin classics ; L88
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| Contents |
The teacher: The Buddha's previous lives. Shakyamuni's meeting with Dipankara ; The bodhisattva and the hungry tigress ; The bodhisattva as a preacher of patience ; Outline of a bodhisattva's progress -- The legend of the Buddha Shakyamuni -- Doctrines: Morality. The five precepts, with Buddhaghosa's commentary ; Rules of monastic restraint ; The monk's life ; Verses from the Sanskrit Dharmapada ; Popular moral Buddhism ; Laymen and monks -- Meditation. The advantages of meditation ; The practice of introversion ; The progressive steps of meditation ; The six types of persons ; The five miraculous powers ; Zen -- Wisdom. The questions of King Milinda ; The heart sutra ; from the Diamond sutra ; Hymn to perfect wisdom / Rahulabhadra ; On believing in mind / Seng-ts'an ; from Treasury of songs / Saraha -- Doctrinal formulas. Faith ; Vigour ; Mindfulness ; Concentration ; Wisdom -- Doctrinal disputes. The personalist controversy ; Mahayana polemics against the Hinayana ; Can there be more than one Buddha at a time? ; The quietist controversy -- Other worlds and future times: Other worlds. The bliss of the heavens ; The torments of the hells ; Life after death and the Book of the dead ; Celestial paradigms : the Pure Land of Amitabha -- Maitreya, the future Buddha |
| Analysis |
Buddhism - Sacred books |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Gautama Buddha -- Sacred books.
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Buddhism -- Doctrines.
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Buddhism -- Sacred books.
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Buddhist literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Sacred works.
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| Author |
Conze, Edward, 1904-1979.
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| LC no. |
59002558 |
| ISBN |
0140440887 |
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