A survey of Buddhist thought/
Alfred Scheepers
- Delhi : M.B.Pub., 1994.
- 312p. : 23cm.
11 Transliteration of the Sanskrit-A Iphabet 13 Preface 17 Introduction 25 I. BUDDHISM IN INDIA 27 1. The Buddha and his Teaching 27 The Scriptures in three 'baskets' 28 The basket of sermons 28 The life of the Buddha 30 The Path to Freedom 31 Ethical niles 31 Meditation 32 Liberating insight 32 Thoughts behind the Method 33 The four noble truths 35 The influence of ignorance 36 Dq)endent origination 42 The five groups of grasping 44 Ultimate reality 48 Ethical causation 52 The middle way 53 2. Early History 54 The five heretical theses 56 The sects 57 Sthaviras 38 Mahasarnghikas 58 Vatsiputriyas 61 y. AbhidharTTia 62 Theras and Sarvastivadins 64 Nature of the Abhidharma 66 The Thera Abhidhamma 66 Freedom and bondage 66 Mind and 'sahkhara' 70 Consciousness and rebirth 70 The process of conscious apperception 73 Psychical factors 78 States of mind 80 Matter 81 Time 81 General characteristics and interpretation 83 The Sarvastivada Abhidharma 85 Retribution 88 Death and after 88 Knowledge and volition 90 Mental faculties 93 Matter 96 Perception 97 Time 97 The concept of Nirvaija 101 4. Saittrantikas 101 The stream of mind 102 Action and fruit 103 Forms, volitions, mind 103 Subtle consciousness 104 Knowledge 105 Time versus space 105 Development in time 106 Nirvana 107 5. Mahaydna 110 Mafiay^a as philosophy 112 Scriptures 114 Origin 115 History 115 Ka^ivas and Suhgas 116 Scyths 116 Kuja^as 117 Cedi and Satavahanas 118 The Guptas 119 Pujpabhutis and other houses 119 Cashmere and Gandhara 120 Decline of Buddhism in India 121 Magadha as the melting pot of ideas 122 The path of the Bodhisattva 122 The ten stages 126 The 'bodies' of the Buddha 129 The apparitional body 129 The body of enjoyment 131 The body of Dharma 132 Truth 132 Suchness 133 The veils of affliaion and of thought 134 Conventional and highest truth 135 The unity of Nirvana and Saihsara 137 6. Madhyamaka 137 Criticism 138 Life of Nagarjuna 139 Works ascribed to Nagarjuna 139 Short History of the Madhyamaka 143 Dialectic 143 The leiralemma 145 Relativity 146 The goal of dialectic 147 Substance or fleeting events? 149 The highest Wisdom 150 Nature of wisdom 151 Wisdom is freedom 152 Absolute and Phenomena 155 Ignorance 156 Two truths 156 Freedom 157 Freedom is spiritual 159 7. Idealism 161 History 162 Dignaga 166 The reality of the external world 167 Theory of knowledge 170 Dharraakirti 171 Two levels of truth 174 The means of knowledge 178 Understanding 182 The idealist solution of the problem of knowledge 184 The problem of intersubjectivity 187 n. BUDDHISM IN CHINA 189 %. The assimilation of Taoism 189 The six houses 191 Sengzhao 192 Movement 192 Existence 193 Wisdom 194 Daosheng 195 Retribution 196 Instantaneous enlightenment 198 The immortality of the mind 201 World-denial and the state 203 9. Later Buddhist developments 203 Jizang , 205 Xuanzang 205 All is relative to the mind 206 Four levels of consciousness 207 Store-consciousness 208 The seven aaive forms of consciousness 210 All consists of the mind's immanent differentiation 211 The three natures of reality and their true essence 213 The road to wisdom 215 10. Three Schools 215 Fazang and the Huayan School 216 Origination through causation 216 The emptiness of matter 217 The three natures 217 Revelation of what is without quality 217 Non-generation 218 The five teachings 219 The mastering of the ten mysteries 221 Embracing the six qualities 221 The achievement of 'Bodhi' 221 Entry into Nirvana 222 Epilogue 222 The 'Fahua' or Lotus school from the Tiantai mountains 223 Absolute mind 224 Three natures 225 The universal and the individual mind 225 The integration of all things 226 Cessation and contemplation 227 Pure and impure natures 228 Ignorance and enlightenment 228 The intellectual position of the Tiant^ School 229 The Ch^ School 230 Wisdom 231 The highest truth is inexpressible 231 Wisdom cannot be cultivated 233 In the last resort nothing is gained 234 There is nothing much in the Buddhist teaching 234 In carrying water and chopping wood: therein lies the wonderful Dao 237 m. BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 239 11. The character of Japanese Buddhism 241 12. Buddhist sects 246 13. Zen-Buddhism 248 The universal and the individual aspect of consciousness 250 Two schools 252 Dogen 254 Against syncretism 254 Enlightenment 256 Time and being 257 Causality 258 Zazen 259 Hakuin 261 The realm of the absolute 263 Rarma and liberation 263 The analogy of man and society