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Buddhism in Translations

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Contents

• The Three Characteristics
• § 1. The Story of Sumedha
• § 2. A List of the Former Buddhas
• § 3. The Characteristics of a Future Buddha
• § 4. The Birth of the Buddha
• § 5. The Young Gotamid Prince
• § 6. The Great Retirement
• § 7. The Great Struggle
• § 8. The Attainment of Buddhaship
• § 9 First Events After the Attainment of Buddhaship
• § 10. The Conversion of Sâriputta And Moggallâna
• § 11. The Buddha's Daily Habits
• § 12. The Death of the Buddha
• § 13. Questions Which Tend Not to Edification
• § 14. King Milinda and Nâgasena Come to an Understanding
• § 15. There Is No Ego
• § 16. All Signs of an Ego are Absent
• § 17. No Continuous Personal Identity
• § 18. The Mind Less Permanent Than the Body
• § 19. What Is Unity Or One?
• § 20. Analysis of the Human Being
• § 21. The Composition of the Body
• § 22. On Getting Angry
• § 23. The Origin and Cessation of the Human Being
• § 24. Inanimate Nature
• § 25. The Middle Doctrine
• § 26. Ignorance
• § 27. Karma
• § 28. Consciousness
• § 29. Name and Form
• § 30. The Six Organs of Sense
• § 31. Contact
• § 32. Sensation
• § 33. Desire
• § 34. Attachment
• § 35. Existence
• § 36. Birth etc
• § 37. Discussion of Dependent Origination
• § 38. Be a Friend to Yourself
• § 39. The Cause of Inequality in the World
• § 40. Fruitful and Barren Karma
• § 41. The Death of Moggallâna
• § 42. Good and Bad Karma
• § 43. How to Obtain Wealth, Beauty, and Social Position
• § 44. The Round of Existence
• § 45. Cause of Rebirth
• § 46. Is This to Be My Last Existence?
• § 47. Rebirth Is Not Transmigration
• § 48. Reflections on Existence
• § 49. Different Kinds of Death
• § 50. How Existence in Hell Is Possible
• § 51. Death's Messengers
• § 52. The Ass in the Lion's Skin
• § 53. The Devoted Wife
• § 54. Friendship
• § 55. Virtue Is Its Own Reward
• § 56. The Hare-Mark in the Moon
• § 57. The Way of Purity
• § 58. Concentration
• § 59. The Thirty-one Grades of Being
• § 60. The Forty Subjects of Meditation
• § 61. The Earth-Kasina
• § 62. Beauty Is But Skin-Deep
• § 63. The Conversion of Animals
• § 64. Love for Animals
• § 65. The Six High Powers
• § 66. Spiritual Law in the Natural World
• § 67. Going Further and Faring Worse
• § 68. Sâriputta and the Two Demons
• § 69. World-Cycles
• § 70. Wisdom
• § 71. The Summum Bonum
• § 72. Mâra as Plowman
• § 73. The Fire-Sermon
• § 74. The Four Intent Contemplations
• § 75. The Attainment of the Paths
• § 76. Nirvana to Be Attained at Death
• § 77. The Attainment of Nirvana by Godhika
• § 78. The Trance of Cessation
• § 79. The Attainment of Nirvana
• § 80. Conduct
• § 81. The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies
• § 82. The Serpent Who Wanted to Be a Priest
• § 83. The Buddhist Confession of Priests
• § 84. The Order Receive Leave to Dwell in Houses
• § 85. Residence During the Rainy Season
• § 86. The Mendicant Ideal
• § 87. The Value of Training in Religion
• § 88. The Colorless Life
• § 89. Can the Saint Suffer?
• § 90. The Body Is an Open Sore
• § 91. Heaven Not the Highest Good
• § 92. The Saints Superior to the Gods
• § 93. The Anger-Eating Demon
• § 94. Contentment Is Riches
• § 95. The Story of a Priest
• § 96. The Young Stone-Thrower
• § 97. "And Hate Not His Father and Mother."
• § 98. No Buddhist Should Commit Suicide
• § 99. The Admission of Women to the Order
• § 100. A Family of Magicians
• § 101. The Story of Visâkhâ
• § 102. The Buddhist Apocalypse
• Sources

Front matter

• Title Page
• Abbreviations
• General Introduction
• Chapter I: The Buddha: Introduction
• Chapter II: Sentient Existence: Introduction
• Chapter III: Karma and Rebirth: Introduction
• Chapter IV: Meditation and Nirvana: Introduction
• Chapter V: The Order: Introduction
• Appendix: § 103. The Five Groups

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