The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction

304 CHAPTER TWELVE and logic, and that had obvious parallels with Buddhist and Hindu teachings on the nature of the mind. These ...

BUDDHISM COMES WEST 305 trality of the teacher-student relationship, expressed in the terminology of Gestalt psychotherapy. The ...

306 CHAPTER TWELVE tradition and devote oneself fully to a life of wisdom. In saying this, he breaks from the traditional Therav ...

BUDDHISM COMES WEST 307 a result, she said, the job of a Western Buddhologist was to ferret out the few remaining glimmerings of ...

308 CHAPTER TWELVE been presented by a student of Chogyam Trungpa, Rita Gross, in her book Buddhism After Patriarchy (1993). Fol ...

BUDDHISM COMES WEST 309 what needs to be retained. Even the doctrine of rebirth, which is one of the few common denominators amo ...

310 CHAPTER iWELVE glorify a playful attitude toward the tradition (Strong EB, sec. 9.3) they find particularly offensive. Some ...

An Overview of the Buddhist Scriptures A. The Pali Canon: The Tipi{aka ("Three Baskets") I. Vinaya-pi[aka ("Basket ofDiscipline" ...

312 AN OVERVIEW OF THE BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES Anguttara-nikaya ("Collection of Item-More Discourses")-more than 2,300 suttas group ...

AN OVERVIEW OF THE BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES 313 B. The Chinese Canon: The Ta-ts'ang-ching ("Great Scripture-Store") The first printed ...

314 AN OVERVIEW OF THE BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES XXIV. Catalogs, vol. 55, 40 texts. Successive catalogs of the Canon begin- ning with ...

Pronunciation Guide As a pan-Asian religion, Buddhism has made use of the major languages of an entire continent. None of these ...

316 PRONUNCIATION GUIDE o as in "go" u as in "rhubarb" Unmarked consonants are generally pronounced as they are in English, wit ...

PRONUNCIATION GUIDE t unaspirated as in "stop" t' aspirated as the tin "top" ts/tz as the ds in "reads" ts' /tz' as the ts in "i ...

318 PRONUNCIATION GUIDE is used alone. Vowels and consonants in the phonetic rendering are pro- nounced much as they are in Engl ...

Glossary L earning about another vision oflife, such as that of Buddhists, requires learning some of the language in which the v ...

320 GLOSSARY Abhidhamma Pitaka. Collection of seven scholastic works of the Theravada school; ane of the three traditional por- ...

GLOSSARY 321 Gautama claimed as the result of his Awakening (see also Tathagata). Later Buddhist tradition recognized three type ...

322 GLOSSARY which-in line with the intention it em- bodies-will result in happiness or du~kha in this or a future rebirth [1.4] ...

GLOSSARY 323 experienced, without reference to the question of whether or not they corres- pond to anything outside of experienc ...