The Foundations of Buddhism

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Notes to Pages IIJ-34


Chapter 5· The Buddhist Cosmos



  1. Sarp.yutta Nikaya ii. r8o-I.

  2. Ibid., r8r-2.
    3· Digha Nikaya i. 215-23.
    4· Digha Nikaya i. 223. This interpretation is in keeping with the com-
    mentary (Sumailgalavilasini 393-4), but the precise interpretation
    of this passage is problematic.
    s. e.g. Digha Nikaya i. 62.

  3. Digha Nikaya i. 17-9; Majjhima Nikaya i. 326-31; cf. Sarp.yutta
    Nikaya i. 142-4.
    7· Ailguttara Nikaya i. 227-8; Abhidharmakosa iii. 73-4; Manora-
    thapural).I ii. 340-1.

  4. Atthasalini r6o-1.
    9· Ai:lguttara Nikaya iii. 415; cf. Atthasalini 88-9.
    ro. Digha Nikaya iii. 269.
    II. Atthasalini 95-104; Conze, Buddhist Scriptures, 70-3 (= Papafica-
    sUdani i. 198-200, 203-4); Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Discourse


on the All-Embracing Net of Views, n8-25 (= Sumailgalavilasini


69-76; Digha-nikaya-atthakatha-tika i. 143-54).


  1. Atthasalini 128.

  2. Ailguttara Nikaya ii. 126, 230; iv. 39; 241; see Marasinghe, Gods in
    Early Buddhism, 244-68.

  3. Abhidhammavatara 182-289.

  4. Visuddhimagga xiii. 31-62; Abhidharmakosa iii. 89-90, roo-2.
    r6. Digha Nikaya iii. 84-5..

  5. Sarp.yutta Nikaya i. 6r-2 = Ailguttara Nikaya ii. 47-9.

  6. Simon Weightman, Hinduism in the Village Setting (Milton Keynes,
    1978).


19. Giuseppe Tucci; The Religions of Tibet (London, 1980 ), 163--90; John


Powers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Ithaca, NY), 431-47.


  1. Spiro, Burmese Supernaturalism (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1967),
    253-7; Richard Gombrich, 'Buddhism and Society', Modern Asian
    Studies, 6 (1972), 483-94 (490).
    2f. Visuddhimagga vii. II5.


22. F. Capra, The Tao of Physics (London, 1976).



  1. Basham, The Wonder That Was India, 490.


Chapter 6. No Self



  1. Brhadaral).yaka Upani~ad 3· 7· 23; 3· 8. n; 4· 4· 25.

  2. Ibid., 3· 9· 26; 4· 2. 4; 4·-4· 22; 4· 5· 15; cf. 4· s. 14.

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