The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction
42 CHAPTER TWO criterion that even a streamwinner would not intentionally transgress the prin- ciples of right speech, right act ...
THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 43 This became the standard formula for taking refuge, even after the two mean- ings of the term Sangha be ...
44 CHAPTER TWO others are expected in the future.) Thus, no one works out personal salvation unaided. The Dhammapada (v.276) sta ...
THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 45 In addition to the Kasyapa story, the texts record many other miraculous events that occurred during th ...
46 CHAPTER TWO life. Ananda figures prominently in the account of the Buddha's last weeks and was present at his death. He alone ...
THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 47 Nevertheless, the Buddha's policy was not one of simple capitulation to the status quo. He refuted the ...
48 CHAPTER TWO after his Awakening-establishing the religion on a firm foothold-so there was no reason for him to further prolon ...
THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER 49 tion-up to the ninth, the cessation of perception and feeling (Strong EB, sec. 3.5.7). Then he returned ...
50 CHAPTER TWO stiipas throughout his empire. Early chronicles record the arrival of a collar- bone and a bowl relic to Sri Lank ...
3 The Development of Early Indian Buddhism 3.1 THE FORMATION OF THE CANON T he Buddha's own name for the religion he founded was ...
54 CHAPTER THREE institutional matters, including instructions on how the Sangha is to be gov- erned. The Sutra Vibhanga contain ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 55 Although the product oflater centuries (beginning circa 300 B.C.E.), Ab- hidharma is ...
56 CHAPTER THREE of how to deal with these inconsistencies led the Bhik~u Sangha to embark on original inquiries into philosophi ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 57 business together-were so strongly worded that the monks never contem- plated such a ...
58 CHAPTER THREE message that could not be supported by the texts: The transcendent Buddha had placed such insights in the mind ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 59 The first split was over whether, aside from nirvat:J.a, all the concepts in the Sut ...
60 CHAPTER THREE the Path to nirvaiJ.a as welL Their concept of a relatively existing person, they said, was not a self, as it c ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 61 ern branch of the trade route: Kashgar, Aksu, Kucha, and Karashahr. From there, they ...
62 CHAPTER THREE As for the Vibhajyavadins, who retained the name of the Sthaviravada, they were united chiefly during the Counc ...
THE.DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 63 him the name of the "Machiavelli of India." Kautalya's advice was apparently very as ...
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