The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction

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1.4 An Interpretation of the Awakening 17

1. 4.1 The Bodhisattva's Remembrance cif His Past Lives
   and the }iitakas 20


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   4. 2 The Jiflheel cif Life and the Hierarchy cif Beings 20
      1.4.3 Dependent Co-Arising and the Cessation cif Suffering 23
   
   
   
   

THE BUDDHA AS TEACHER

2.1 The Decision to Propagate the Dharma

2.2 The First Sermon

2.3 Commentary on the First Sermon

2.3.1 The Four Noble Truths

2.3.2 Practice and Attainment

2.4 Founding the Buddhist Community

2.5 The ParinirviitJ-a (The Buddha's Passing Away)

THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM

3.1 The Formation of the Canon

3.1.1 The Sutras

3.1.2 Vinaya

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   1. 3 Abhidharma
      3.2 The Development of the Early Systems and Schools
      3.2.1 The Second Council and the Mahiisanghikas
      3.2.2 The Personalist School
   
   
   
   


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   2. 3 The Third Council and the Sarviistiviidins
   
   
   
   


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   2. 4 The Sautriintikas and Later Schools
      3.3 Asoka
      3.4 Religious Life in the Early Centuries
      3.4.1 The Code cifDisciplinefor Monks
      3.4.2 The Life cifthe Monks
      3.4.3 Buddhist Nuns
      3.4.4 The Laity
      3.4.5 Cult Objects and Forms cif Worship
   
   
   
   

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4 THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT
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4.1 The Rise of Mahayana

4.2 The Teaching of Emptiness

4.3 Yogacara

4.4 Later Developments in Hinayana

5 SOTERIOLOGY AND PANTHEON

OF THE MAHAYANA

5.1 The Bodhisattva Path

5.2 Buddhist Women in the Mahayana

5.3 Images of the Buddha

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