The Foundations of Buddhism

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Notes to Pages IB4-200

27. Phra Maha Boo';a Nal).a~ampanno, Forest Dh[lmma: A Selection pf


Talks on Buddh1st Pract1ce (Bangkok, r973), r6- 22 ; Geshe Gediin


Lodro, Walking through Walls: A Presentation of Tibetan Medita-


tion (Ithaca, NY, 1992), 222-9, 252-4.


  1. e.g. Majjhima Nikaya i. 276.
    29. e.g. in Visuddhimagga presentation of forty kammatthtina.

  2. Digha Nikaya i. 77-83; Visuddhimagga xii-xiii (see Conze, Buddhist
    Scriptures, 121 -33).

  3. Gethin, The Buddhist Path to Awakening, 97-IOI.

  4. e.g Patrick Pranke, 'On Becoming a Buddhist Wizard', in Lopez,
    Buddhism in Practice, 343-58, a Burmese text; Tambiah, The Bud-


dhist Saints of the Forest, 272.


33· On the four brahma-vihiiras as leading to awakening see Richard
Gombrich, How Buddhism Began (London, 1996), 57-64.
34· Visuddhimagga ix. I08-g.
35· Ibid., 8~u, ID3; Harvey B. Aronson, Love and Sympathy in Thera-
viida Buddhism (Delhi, 1980).



  1. Visuddhimagga xx. I04.
    37· Ibid., xxi. 43·

  2. Ibid., xxi. 49·
    39· Abhidharma-samuccaya 104. Louis de La Vallee Poussin, 'A
    Summary Note on the Path', Abhidharmakosabhii~yam, trans. by
    Pruden, iii. pp. xiv-xxii.

  3. See Satipatthiina Sutta, Digha Nikaya ii. 290-315, Majjhima Nikaya
    i. ss-63.

  4. Sarp.yutta Nikaya iii. 155; Ariguttara Nikaya iv. 127.

  5. Winston King, Theraviida Meditation (University Park, Pa., 1980).


43· Johannes Bronkhorst, The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient


India (Delhi, 1993).
44· Louis de La Vallee Poussin, 'Musila et Narada', Melanges chinois
et bouddhiques, 5 (1937), 189-222; Lambert Schmithausen, 'On
Some Aspects of Descriptions or Theories of "Liberating Insight"


and "Enlightenment" in Early Buddhism', in Klaus Bruhn and


Albrecht Wezler (ed.), Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus:
Gedenkschrift fur Ludwig Alsdorf (Wiesbaden, 1981), 199-250;
Paul Griffiths, 'Concentration or Insight: The Problematic of

Thera vida Buddhist Meditation-Theory', Journal of the American


Academy of Religion, 59 (rg8r), 605-24; Vetter, The Ideas and


Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism; Gombrich, How Buddhism


Began, 96-134.
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