Buddhism Its Essence and Development

Name: Buddhism Its Essence and Development
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ISBN: 9780486430959

ISBN-10: 0486430952

ISBN-13: 9780486430959

Edition: 2003

Authors: Edward Conze

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Based on a series of Oxford lectures delivered by a well-known Buddhist scholar, this volume covers the entire range of Buddhist thought. It introduces Buddhism as both religion and philosophy, discusses its common ground with other faiths throughout the world, contrasts monastic and popular Buddhism, and defines old and new schools of thought, including the Mahayana, the Yogacarins, and the Tantra. "He has opened the stately ground 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. Unabridged republication of the…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface



Introduction


Buddhism as a Religion


Buddhism as a Philosophy


Self-extinction


'Radical Pessimism'


Immortality


Survival Value



Common Ground


The Flavour of Dharma


The Documents


The Buddha


Is Buddhism atheistic?


The Four Holy Truths


Cosmology[degree]



Monastic Buddhism


The Samgha


Poverty


Celibacy


Inoffensiveness


Main Currents of Monastic Thought



Popular Buddhism


The Place of the Laity


The Temporal Power


The Services of the Samgha


The Influence of the Laity



The Old Wisdom School


Sects


Sariputra


Arhats


Practices


Moral Discipline


Trance


Wisdom


Decline



The Mahayana, and the New Wisdom School


The Mahasanghikas


Hinayana and Mahayana


Literary Development


Bodhisattvas


Emptiness


Salvation


Parallels



Buddhism of Faith and Devotion


The Reception of Bhakti


Literary History


The Agent of Salvation


The Aims of the Faithful


Methods


Self-extinction and Faith



The Yogacarins


Wisdom and Trance


Literary History


"Mind-only"


"Store-consciousness"


Further Doctrines



The Tantra, or Magical Buddhism


The Problem of the Tantra


History of the Tantra


Tantric Practices


Tantric Philosophy


Tantric Mythology


Left-handed Tantra


The Control of the Body



Non-Indian Developments


Survey


Ch'an


Amidism


Rnyin-ma-pa


European Buddhism


Appendices


Table of Dates


Diagram: New Wisdom School, Yogacarins, Tantra