Indian Buddhism

Abstract

Preface to the third edition ; Preface to the second edition ; Preface to the first edition ; Introduction ; The Sources of our Knowledge of Buddhism ; Methodology ; The Tripitaka ; The Matrka ; The Schools ; The Internal Chronology of the Tripitaka ; Buddhism Contrasted with Rival Teachings ; Interpretation ; Indian Civilisation before the Buddha ; The lndus Civilisation ; The Aryans ; Brahmanism ; Vyasa ; P. India in the time of the Buddha ; Social and Political Crisis ; The Philosophical Tradition ; The Sramanas ; The Sramanas and Society ; The Main Sramanas Schools other than the Buddhists ; The life of the Buddha ; Chronology and Birth ; Renunciation and Enlightenment ; Teaching and Organising ; The last Months and the Parinirvana ; The Doctrine of the Buddha ; The Buddha's Summary of his Principles Promulgated at VaiSali ; Self-possession ; Exertion Power ; The Faculties ; The Strengths ; Enlightenment ; The Way ; Practice and Truth ; Causation ; Conditioned Origination ; The Four 'Foods' ; Is there a Soul ? ; Consciousness ; Impermanence ; Freedom ; Experience ; Knowledge of Objective Facts ; Did the Buddha Claim Omniscience? ; Two Levels of Statement ; The Gods ; Buddhism and Society ; The Buddha and the World ; Evolution and the Nature of Society ; The Ideal Society ; Good Government ; Class and the Priesthood ; The Buddha's Teaching to the Laity ; The Lay Disciple ; Collecting the Tripitaka ; The First Rehearsal of the Tripitaka ; The Empire of Magadha ; The VaiGli Affair and the Assembly of 700 Monks ; The First Schism ; The Abhidharma ; The Popularisation of Buddhism ; Pagodas and Pilgrimages ; Poetry and Story-telling ; The Personality Schism ; Asoka: Buddhism to be Implemented ; The 'All Exist' and other Schisms ; Buddhist Poetry in the Time of Asoka ; The Results of the Great Experiment ; The Eighteen Schools ; The Schisms and Geography ; The Sthaviravada ; Ceylon ; The Commentaries ; The Caitikas, Andhra and the Satavahana Empire ; The Lokottaravada and Bahusrutiya : The Legend of the Buddha and Asvaghosa ; The Sarvastivada, proto-Sautrantika and the Kusana Empire ; South East Asia ; Art ; Mahayana and Madhyamaka ; Mahayana ; The Bodhisattva ; The Perfection of Understanding ; Madhyamaka ; Nagarjuna ; Further Development of the Madhyamaka School ; New Trends in' Mahayana ; The Ratnagotravibhaga and the Abhisamayalankara ; Developments in the Early Schools after the Rise of the Mahayana ; Idealism and the Theory of Knowledge ; Idealism ; Asanga ; The Theory of Knowledge ; Sautrantika Epistemology: Vasubandhu II and Dinnaga ; The Great Universities and the Mantrayha ; The Development of the Medieval Schools ; Dharmakirti and Pramana ; Abhidharma in and after the 5th century ; The Syncretistic Trend of Madhyamaka ; Man trayana ; The Kriya, Carya, Yoga and Anuttarayoga Systems ; The Spirit of Destruction ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Abbreviations ; Index ; Maps ;