The Foundations of Buddhism

The Mahayana 241 latter. At the same time these early Buddhist texts stress that the arhat transcends and is free of all views a ...

The Mahiiyiina 'dharma' is? What he wants to point out, by appeal to funda- mental principles that all Buddhist thought takes fo ...

The Mahiiyiina 243 liar to the Mahayana; that is, the understanding of emptiness of all dharmas is not seen as exclusive to bodh ...

244 The Mahayana Nagarjuna on these matters: certainly dharmas are ultimately; ungraspable and evanescent; certainly the arhat's ...

The Mahiiyiina 245 Vijiiaptimiitratiisiddhi, a commentary on Vasubandhu's Trif!lsikii incorporating the views of various Indian ...

The Mahiiyiina mind. Building on the traditions of the earlier Abhidharmikasi Y ogacarin thinkers give what amounts to a rather ...

The Mahayana 247 experience in its 'imagined' (parikalpita) nature, for the world of experiencing subject or 'grasper' and exper ...

The Mahiiyiina 'something' (either mind or matter), but simply as the way things are: 'thusness' (tathatii).^46 Modern scholars ...

The Mahayana 249 how we construct our world our of ideas, of how this causes us suffering, and of how we can turn this process a ...

The Mahayana experienced objects, we are trapped in a world of beings grasping at their experiences as objects of possession; on ...

The Mahiiyiina 251 these defilements brings about the cessation of all that suffering. This is a statement of the first three of ...

The Mahiiyiina and unmovingly the tathagata's wisdom, the tathagata's vision, and the tathagata's body ... [A)ll beings, though ...

10 Evolving Traditions of Buddhism South, East, North, and West Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and South-East Asia: Southern Bu ...

254 Traditions of Buddhism Following the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka by Mahinda in the third century BCE (see Chapter ...

Traditions of Buddhism 255 Bahu I. From the second century BCE south Indian kings had invaded and ruled on several occasions in ...

Traditions of Buddhism modernization, and increasing European interest in Buddhist thought and practice.'^4 South-East Asia Indi ...

Traditions of Buddhism 257 lineage of the Sangha. The influence of this reform in Thai- land and beyond has resulted in the grad ...

Traditions of Buddhism widespread government suppression of Buddhism, which, in the more recent period, has given way to a more ...

Traditions of Buddhism 259 each some I,ooo pages in length, contain 2,I84 works: volumes I to 32 consist of translations of anci ...

260 Traditions of Buddhism the schools of Korean and Japanese Buddhism. In practice cer- tain of the schools developed more sign ...