The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction
2 INTRODUCTION thrown into sharp reliefby the perspective offered by the assumptions, uncon- scious and conscious, of the rest o ...
INTRODUCTION 3 ings. Others have regarded any questioning of the tradition's current state as an act of irreverence. Although on ...
4 INTRODUCTION Buddhism-viewed as a whole through the more than 2,500 years of its history-has been remarkably diverse. Although ...
INTRODUCTION 5 accounts throughout, as these come from the only complete Hinayana Canon extant and are thus the only sources tha ...
6 INTRODUCTION texts, it is a raft across the ocean of suffering that is then abandoned when the ocean is crossed. On occasion t ...
1 The Buddha's Awakening 1.1 THE SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS CONTEXT OF EARLY BUDDHISM B uddhism began with the Awakening of the Buddha ...
8 CHAPTER ONE The traditional religious beliefs and practices questioned by these mem- bers of society were those stemming from ...
THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 1.2 THE WORLDVIEW OF EARLY NORTH INDIAN THOUGHT 9 By the first millennium B.C.E., north Indian thought ha ...
10 CHAPTER ONE no role in providing for one's happiness or misery; that morality was purely a social convention; and that escape ...
THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING .11 Buddha; others focus more on his personal qualities as models for Buddhists to emulate. The following ...
12 CHAPTER ONE 1.3.2 The Great Renunciation (Strong EB, sec. 1.3) The Pali Suttas (=Sutras) describe Prince Siddhartha's youth a ...
THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 13 rode out of the city, accompanied by his charioteer. After traveling a fair dis- tance, Siddhartha dis ...
14 CHAPTER ONE current in his day, he tried to think of another way. He remembered an inci- dent in his childhood: While sitting ...
THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 15 teer to seduce the Bodhisattva, but they too eventually fail. As the sun sets, Mara and his retinue wi ...
16 CHAPTER ONE acquired the first cognition, which is identical with the fourth superknowl- edge: that of knowing his many thous ...
THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 17 During the third watch (2 A.M. to dawn), the Bodhisattva acquired the third cognition (and sixth super ...
18 .CHAPTER ONE sporadically in later centuries. Implicit in such reports is the affirmation that the particular experiences of ...
THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 19 ing of experience. The third cognition, like the first two, is presented as a di- rect perception, but ...
20 CHAPTER ONE 1.4.1 The Bodhisattva's Remembrance of His Past Lives and the Jatakas The three knowledges that constituted the A ...
THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 21 the mouth and claws of the monster Time or Impermanence. Its perimeter is ringed with the 12 precondit ...
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