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1 online resource (521 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. The Buddha and his Indian Context -- 2. Early Buddhist Teachings: Rebirth and Karma -- 3. Early Buddhist Teachings: The Four True Realities for the Spiritually Ennobled -- 4. Early Developments in Buddhism -- 5. Mahāyāna Philosophies: The Varieties of Emptiness -- 6. Mahāyāna Holy Beings, and Tantric Buddhism -- 7. The Later History and Spread of Buddhism -- 8. Buddhist Practice: Devotion -- 9. Buddhist Practice: Ethics -- 10. Buddhist Practice: The Sa & ndotabove ;gha -- 11. Buddhist Practice: Meditation and Cultivation of Experience-Based Wisdom -- 12. The Modern History of Buddhism in Asia -- 13. Buddhism Beyond Asia |
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Introduction -- 1. The Buddha and his Indian Context -- Background to the life of the Buddha -- Brahmanism -- The Samaas -- The life of the Buddha -- The renunciation and quest for awakening -- The awakening and after -- The first sermon and the spread of the teachings -- The Buddha's charisma and powers -- The passing away of the Buddha -- The nature and role of the Buddha -- The nature and style of the Buddha's teaching -- 2. Early Buddhist Teachings: Rebirth and Karma -- Rebirth and cosmology -- The questions of a creator God and the origins of human life -- The implications of the rebirth perspective -- Karma -- Generating and sharing karmic fruitfulness or 'merit' -- Belief in rebirth and karma -- 3. Early Buddhist Teachings: The Four True Realities for the Spiritually Ennobled -- The first True Reality for the Spiritually Ennobled: the painful -- The five bundles of grasping-fuel: the factors of personality -- Phenomena as impermanent and non-Self -- The second True Reality for the Spiritually Ennobled: the origin of the painful -- Conditioned Arising -- The third True Reality for the Spiritually Ennobled: the cessation of the painful -- Nirvāa -- Nirvāa during life -- The Arahat -- Nirvāa beyond death -- Nirvāa as an object of insight -- The Fourth True Reality for the Spiritually Ennobled: The Path to the Cessation of the Painful -- 4. Early Developments in Buddhism -- The early Sagha -- The Abhidhamma -- The early schools and their doctrines -- The three aspirations, Jātakas and Avadānas -- Emperor Asoka and Buddhism -- Devotion and symbolism in early Buddhism -- The rise of the Mahāyāna -- The nature of the Mahāyāna and its attitude to earlier schools -- 5. Mahāyāna Philosophies: The Varieties of Emptiness -- The Perfection of Wisdom literature and the Mādhyamika school -- Sources and writers -- The Śūnyatāvādin orientation -- Empty dharmas and Conditioned Arising -- Conventional truth and language -- Emptiness -- Skilful means and the transcending of views -- Ultimate truth and thusness -- Nirvāa and sasāra -- Self-emptiness and other-emptiness -- The Yogācāra school -- Sources and writers -- The Yogācāra orientation -- The Yogācāra and the Mādhyamika views of each other -- The Yogācāra view of the role and nature of consciousness -- The world as 'thought-only' -- The three natures -- The Yogācāra path and goal -- Purity and defilement -- Tathāgata-garbha thought -- Tathāgata-garbha sources -- The Tathāgata-garbha |
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The Tathāgata-garbha and the defilements -- Tathāgata-garbha thought in relation to the Mādhyamika and Yogācāra -- The Tathāgata-garbha and the self-emptiness versus other-emptiness debate -- East Asian developments -- The Avatasaka sūtra and the Huayan school -- A comparative overview of Mahāyāna philosophies and their ideas of 'emptiness' -- 6. Mahāyāna Holy Beings, and Tantric Buddhism -- The Path of the Bodhisattva -- Wisdom, compassion and skilful means -- The perfections and stages of the Bodhisattva -- Mahayana Buddhology: Expansion with Regard to the Number, Location, Life-Span and Nature of Buddhas -- Pure Lands and other Buddha-fields -- The huge life-span of Buddhas -- The Trikāya doctrine -- The Mahāyāna Pantheon -- The Tantric Perspective -- The Mantranaya and the origin of tantric Buddhism -- The phases of tantric texts, and the Vajrayāna -- Tantric deities and adepts -- Features of tantric Buddhism -- 7. The Later History and Spread of Buddhism -- India and Central Asia -- Lakā -- South-East Asia Excluding Vietnam -- Yogāvacara: esoteric Southern Buddhism -- The Lands of Northern Buddhism -- China -- Early history -- The schools of Chinese Buddhism -- The Pure Land schoolhairsp -- The Chan school -- Later history -- Vietnam and Korea -- Japan -- Early history -- The Pure Land schools -- The Zen schools -- The Nichiren school -- Later history -- Overview and Comparative Reflections -- 8. Buddhist Practice: Devotion -- Focuses and Locations of Devotional Acts -- Bowing, Offerings and Chanting -- The Refuges -- Attitudes to Images -- Protective Chanting -- Some Mahāyāna Focuses of Devotion -- Avalokiteśvara -- Amitabhā -- Bhaiajya-Guru -- The Lotus Sūtra -- Pilgrimage -- Festivals -- 9. Buddhist Practice: Ethics -- The Role and Basis of Ethics in Buddhism -- Giving -- Keeping the Precepts -- The first precept -- The other precepts -- The positive implications of the precepts -- Taking extra precepts -- Lovingkindness and Compassion -- Care for the Dying and the Dead -- The Ethics of Social Relationships -- 10. Buddhist Practice: The Sa & ndotabove ;gha -- The Role of Monasticism -- The Monastic Code of Discipline -- Patterns and Types of Ordination -- Nuns -- The Economic Base of the Monastic Life -- Study and Meditation -- Study -- The meditative life -- Communal Life -- Relations with the Laity -- 11. Buddhist Practice: Meditation and Cultivation of Experience-Based Wisdom -- The Approach to Meditation -- Qualities to be Developed by Meditation -- Samatha and vipassanā -- Approaches Beginning with Samatha in Southern Buddhism -- Lovingkindness meditation -- Mindfulness of breathing -- The five hindrances and access concentration -- The jhānas and formless attainments -- Cessation and the higher knowledges -- The Contributions of Samatha and Vipassanā Meditation in Southern Buddhism -- Approaches Beginning with Vipassanā in Southern Buddhism -- Investigation of the 'three marks' -- Some recent methods of vipassanā practice -- The seven stages of purification -- The Classical Path of Śamatha and vipaśyanā in Northern and Eastern Buddhism -- Pure Land Visualizations -- Tantric Visualizations -- Mantras, mudrās and the yidam -- Maalas -- Visualizations -- The cakras and The 'Six Yogas of Nāropa' -- Sexual yoga -- Tantric Techniques of Spontaneity -- Mahāmudrā -- Dzogch'en -- Zen Meditation -- Just Sitting -- No-thought -- Spontaneity and discipline -- Kōan meditation -- Kenshō -- Sudden awakenings -- Zen in action: straightforward mind at all times -- The meditative arts of Zen -- 12. The Modern History of Buddhism in Asia -- Southern Buddhism -- Sri Lanka -- Thailand -- Burmathinsp -- Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Yunnan -- India, Bangladesh and Nepal -- Malaysia and Indonesia -- Eastern Buddhism -- Japan -- The People's Republic of China -- Taiwan -- Vietnam -- Korea -- Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines -- Northern Buddhism -- Tibet -- The Tibetan diaspora in Indiathinsp -- Mongolia and related regions -- Bhutan, northern India and Nepal -- 13. Buddhism Beyond Asia -- The Early Influence of Buddhism Through Literature, Philosophy and Psychology -- The Theosophical Society: a bridge between east and west -- Scholarship -- The Internet, Films and Music -- Immigration -- Categories of Buddhists, and their Characteristics and Numbers -- Buddhist Missions and Organizations -- The USA -- Canadathinsp -- The United Kingdom and Ireland -- Continental Europe -- Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Africa and Israel -- Appendix I. Canons of Scriptures -- Appendix II Web Resources -- General links and resources -- Free online journals and e-texts of print journals -- Southern Buddhism -- General Mahāyāna, especially texts -- Northern Buddhism -- Eastern Buddhism -- Other organizations |
| Summary |
"In this new edition of the best-selling Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the West. Extensively revised and fully updated, this new edition draws on recent scholarship in the field, exploring the tensions and continuities between the different forms of Buddhism. Harvey critiques and corrects some common misconceptions and mistranslations, and discusses key concepts that have often been over-simplified and over-generalised. The volume includes detailed references to scriptures and secondary literature, an updated bibliography and a section on web resources. Key terms are given in Pali and Sanskrit, and Tibetan words are transliterated in the most easily pronounceable form, making this is a truly accessible account. This is an ideal coursebook for students of religion, Asian philosophy and Asian studies, and is also a useful reference for readers wanting an overview of Buddhism and its beliefs"--EBL |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 29, 2012) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Buddhism.
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Buddhism
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Buddhism.
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
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Buddhism
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139839808 |
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9781139844543 |
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1139844547 |
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1139839802 |
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9781139050531 |
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1139050532 |
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