Buddhist precept and practice: Traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon/
Richard F Gombrich
- 2nd ed. with minor corrections.
- Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1991.
- 427 p.
1. Sinhalese Buddhism—Orthodox or Syncretistic? 2. The Basic Vocabulary of Buddhism 3. The Buddha I. The Buddha's Biography II. The Buddha as worshipped: Man or God? 4. A Sketch of the Universe as seen from Mlgala 1. Causation II. The Contents of the Universe III. Attempts to influence non-human Beings IV. Summary 5. Total Responsibility in Theory and Practice 6. The Ethics of Intention 7. The Monastic Ideal and the Decline of Buddhism 8. Caste in the Monastery
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