- Ordination and the Buddhist monastic ideal
- The underlying concerns of the Vinaya
- From wandering to settled life
- The spiritual life
- The lay community
- WORLD II 5· THE BuDDHIST CosMos: THE THRICE-THousANDFOLD
- Of space and time: world-systems II
- Cosmology and psychology: macrocosm and microcosm II
- Cosmology, folk religion, and modern science!
- DEPENDENT ARISING 6. No SELF: PERSONAL CONTINUITY AND
- The Buddhist critique of self as unchanging
- The problem of personal continuity J
- Ignorance, attachment, and views of the self
- The elaboration of the teaching of dependent arising
- Did the Buddha deny the existence of the self?
- AND INSIGHT 7· THE BUDDHISM PATH: THE WAY OF CALM
- Introductory remarks
- The role of faith
- Good conduct
- The practice of calm meditation
- The relationship of calm and insight The stages of insight meditation 18j
- THE ABHIDHARMA: THE HIGHER TEACHING
- Stories, legends, texts, and authors
- The Abhidharma as a system of Buddhist thought
- The consciousness process, karma, and rebirth
- Some Abhidharma problems 2!
- 9· THE MAHAYANA: THE GREAT VEHICLE Contents xi
- The beginnings of the Mahayana
- The vehicle of the bodhisattva
- Transcendent buddhas
- Emptiness and the 'perfection of wisdom'
- Nagarjuna and the 'middle' (Madhyamaka) school
- 'Ideas only' (vijfiapti-miitra) and the Yogacara
- The Tathagatagarbha
- NORTH, AND WEST ro. EvoLVING TRADITIONS OF BuDDHISM: SouTH, EAsT,
- South-East Asia: Southern Buddhism Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and
- China, Korea, and Japan: East Asian Buddhism
- Tibet and Mongolia: Northern Buddhism
- A final note: Buddhism in the West
- Select Bibliography &~ m
- Glossary
- Index
