The Foundations of Buddhism

Rupert Gethin ...

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An OPUS book The Foundations of Buddhism Rupert Gethin is Lecturer in Indian Religions in the Department of Theology and Religio ...

OPUS General Editors Christopher Butler Robert Evans John Skorupski OPUS books provide concise, original, and authoritative intr ...

The Foundations of Buddhism Rupert Gethin Oxford New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford oxz 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxfo ...

For my mother ...

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Acknowledgements My understanding of the Buddhist tradition owes much to many. Some of what is owed and to whom is apparent from ...

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Contents List of Tables and Figure xii List of Maps xiii A Note on Buddhist Languages xvii INTRODUCTION I I. THE BUDDHA: THE STO ...

X Contents Spiro's schema: apotropaic, kammatic, and nibbanic Buddhism IIO ...

- Ordination and the Buddhist monastic ideal - The underlying concerns of the Vinaya - From wandering to settled lif ...

List of Tables and Figure Tables The noble eightfold path 81 The thirty-one realms of existence according to the Pali sources ...

List of Maps I. The Ganges basin at the time of the Buddha The spread of Buddhism in the ancient world 3· Buddhism in the mode ...

Land over 1000 metres 0 50 100 150 km 0 50 100 miles MAP 1. The Ganges basin at the time of the Buddha ...

0 500 1000 1500 km 0 500 1000 miles ~ The extent of Buddhist influence MAP 2. The spread of Buddhism in the ancient world 0 ' ? ...

0 500 1000 1500 km 0 500 1000 miles Theravada or 'southern' Buddhism East Asian or 'eastern' Buddhism [::J Tibetan or 'northern' ...

A Note on Buddhist Languages The original language of Buddhist thought is problematic. It was not Sanskrit (Old Indo-Aryan) but ...

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