The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction

22 CHAPTER ONE associated with fertility. In their aerial aspect as cloud spirits, they came to be musicians attendant upon the ...

THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 23 in later centuries the way in which Buddhism interacted with the spirit cults it encountered in every ...

24 CHAPTER ONE On the level of attainment, the act of understanding dependent co-arising was the prerequisite for realizing the ...

THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 25 Thus the early texts are quite clear on the point that the conditioned and unconditioned are radically ...

26 CHAPTER ONE as his primary examples ofbirth, aging, and death, and with gaining in- sight through them into how these process ...

THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 27 4 3 12 The Wheel of Life the forces that form the mind. Without these forces, sensory conscious- ness ...

28 CHAPTER ONE The prescription is as follows: When ignorance ceases, formations cease, and so on, until aging and dying cease. ...

THE BUDDHA'S AWAKENING 29 longer created any karma, he lived out the remainder of this life on the strength of the karma he had ...

2 The Buddha as Teacher 2.1 THE DECISION TO PROPAGATE THE DHARMA A ll accounts state that the Buddha spent the first seven weeks ...

THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 31 edge of the Dharma" (M.26). Then, out of compassion for living beings, Sakyamuni surveyed the world wit ...

32 CHAPTER TWO One. He declared that he had attained the Deathless; that he was going to teach the Dharma; and that if they prac ...

THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 33 subject to origination is subject to cessation. This was a momentousincident in the history ofBuddhism. ...

34 CHAPTER TWO mental formations, and consciousness are each aniftman (not-self). Because they are impermanent, they entail suff ...

THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 35 Faith in the Buddha as revealer of the Dharma is a first step on the Path. The preliminary level of rig ...

36 CHAPTER TWO the Awakening. Discernment here means clear understanding of the Four Noble Truths and the consequent intention t ...

THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 37 master concentration. As one's mastery grows, one gains a clearer perception of causal patterns underly ...

38 CHAPTER TWO teaching on not-self has been controversial from early on. Opponents ofBud- dhism have regarded it as a metaphysi ...

THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 39 This goal is realized by developing the Path, which we have already dis- cussed in detail. Thus the tas ...

40 CHAPTER TWO release. A Pali Sutta (A.X. 93) makes the point that right view is unique in that it is the only form of view who ...

THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 41 levels of existence in the interim; once-returners, destined to be reborn once in heaven and then retur ...