Author: Dipak Kumar Barua
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tipiṭaka
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Description: The first four Nikaya-texts belonging to the Suttapitaka of the Pali Tipitaka which contains the sacred sayings of Gotama (Skt. Gautama) Buddha are of inextimable value since they provide important source-materials to study the religio-cultural history of the contemporary period. From the sociological point of view too they are of utmost significance, because they vividly present the daily life of the people of ancient India. Hence the importance of the Nikayas can neither be gainsaid nor exaggerated. In fact, this work contains an outline study of the four Nikayas, namely Dighanikaya, Majjhimanikaya, Samyuttanikaya, and Anguttaranikaya, which belong to the Theravada Pali Canon, on some select aspects in five chapters and three appendices treating of the age of the Nikayas, comparative study between the Sanskrit/Chinese Agamas and Pali Nikayas, their language, Buddha's discourses to the laity, teachings of early Buddhism under the threefold division of Sila, Samadhi and Panna, discussions on administrative, social and economic conditions of ancient India, historical and geographical materials found in the Nikayas, mutual relations of the treatment of similes in these texts. It also includes brief contents of the Suttas of those Nikayas. In the present work, on the whole, an attempt has been made to introduce the first four Nikaya-texts in their entirety. Contents Foreword Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition I. THE FOUR NIKAYAS 1. Probable Time of Compilation of the Four Nikayas 2. Nikayas and Agamas Compared 3. Language of the Nikayas II. DISCOURSE TO THE LAITY 1. Introductory Discussion 2. Definitions of Gahapati and Upasaka 3. Ethical 4. Religious 5. Secular Discourses 6. Jaina Discourses Compared III. DISCOURSES ON SILA, SAMADHI AND PANNA 1. Introductory discussion 2. Sila 3. Samadhi 4. Panna IV. DISCUSSIONS ON SECULAR MATTERS-ADMINISTRATIVE, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC 1. Origin of State 2. Kingship 3. Republican form of Government 4. Military Administration 5. Rural Administration 6. Caste 7. Classes of People 8. Slavery 9. Marriage and Position of Women 10. Offences and Punishments 11. General Life 12. Agriculture 13. Industry 14. Seaproducts 15. Trade and commerce 16. Famine V. HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS IN THE NIKAYAS 1. Anga 2. Magadha 3. Kasi 4. Kosala 5. Vajji 6. Malla 7. Cedi 8. Vamsa 9. Kuru 10. Pancala 11. Maccha 12. Surasena 13. Assaka 14. Avanti 15. Gandhara 16. Kamboja 17. Clans and Peoples 18. Conception of Jambudipa 19. Physiography 20. Divisions of India 21. Physical Features 22. Places Mentioned
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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 161429044X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1936
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Like the River Ganges flowing down from the Himalayas, the entire Buddhist tradition flows down to us from the teachings and deeds of the historical Buddha, who lived and taught in India during the fifth century B.C.E. To ensure that his legacy would survive the ravages of time, his direct disciples compiled records of the Buddha's teachings soon after his passing. In the Theravada Buddhist tradition, which prevails in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, these records are regarded as the definitive "word of the Buddha." Preserved in Pali, an ancient Indian language closely related to the language that the Buddha spoke, this full compilation of texts is known as the Pali Canon. At the heart of the Buddha's teaching were the suttas (Sanskrit sutras), his discourses and dialogues. If we want to find out what the Buddha himself actually said, these are the most ancient sources available to us. The suttas were compiled into collections called "Nikayas," of which there are four, each organized according to a different principle. The Digha Nikaya consists of longer discourses; the Majjhima Nikaya of middle-length discourses; the Samyutta Nikaya of thematically connected discourses; and the Anguttara Nikaya of numerically patterned discourses. The present volume, which continues Wisdom's famous Teachings of the Buddha series, contains a full translation of the Anguttara Nikaya. The Anguttara arranges the Buddha's discourses in accordance with a numerical scheme intended to promote retention and easy comprehension. In an age when writing was still in its infancy, this proved to be the most effective way to ensure that the disciples could grasp and replicate the structure of a teaching.
Author: Jianxun Shi
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811611521
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Due to the diversity in Buddhism, its essence remains a puzzle. This book investigates the Buddhist path to liberation from a practical and critical perspective by searching for patterns found in the Pāli Nikāyas and the Chinese Āgamas. The early discourses depict the Buddhist path as a network of routes leading to the same goal: liberation from suffering. This book summarizes various teachings in three aspects, provides a template theory for systematically presenting the formulas of the sequential training of the path, and analyses the differences and similarities among diverse descriptions of the path in the early Buddhist texts. By offering a comprehensive map of the Buddhist path, this book will appeal to scholars and students of Buddhist studies as well as those practitioners with a serious interest in the Buddhist path.
Author: Keren Arbel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317383990
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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This book offers a new interpretation of the relationship between 'insight practice' (satipatthana) and the attainment of the four jhànas (i.e., right samàdhi), a key problem in the study of Buddhist meditation. The author challenges the traditional Buddhist understanding of the four jhànas as states of absorption, and shows how these states are the actualization and embodiment of insight (vipassanà). It proposes that the four jhànas and what we call 'vipassanà' are integral dimensions of a single process that leads to awakening. Current literature on the phenomenology of the four jhànas and their relationship with the 'practice of insight' has mostly repeated traditional Theravàda interpretations. No one to date has offered a comprehensive analysis of the fourfold jhàna model independently from traditional interpretations. This book offers such an analysis. It presents a model which speaks in the Nikàyas' distinct voice. It demonstrates that the distinction between the 'practice of serenity' (samatha-bhàvanà) and the 'practice of insight' (vipassanà-bhàvanà) – a fundamental distinction in Buddhist meditation theory – is not applicable to early Buddhist understanding of the meditative path. It seeks to show that the common interpretation of the jhànas as 'altered states of consciousness', absorptions that do not reveal anything about the nature of phenomena, is incompatible with the teachings of the Pàli Nikàyas. By carefully analyzing the descriptions of the four jhànas in the early Buddhist texts in Pàli, their contexts, associations and meanings within the conceptual framework of early Buddhism, the relationship between this central element in the Buddhist path and 'insight meditation' becomes revealed in all its power. Early Buddhist Meditation will be of interest to scholars of Buddhist studies, Asian philosophies and religions, as well as Buddhist practitioners with a serious interest in the process of insight meditation.
Author: Louis de La Vallée Poussin
Publisher:
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: Tse-fu Kuan
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415437377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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This book identifies what is meant by sati (smrti), usually translated as ‘mindfulness’, in early Buddhism, and examines its soteriological functions and its central role in the early Buddhist practice and philosophy. Using textual analysis and criticism, it takes new approaches to the subject through a comparative study of Buddhist texts in Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit. It also furnishes new perspectives on the ancient teaching by applying the findings in modern psychology. In contemporary Buddhism, the practice of mindfulness is zealously advocated by the Theravada tradition, which is the only early Buddhist school that still exists today. Through detailed analysis of Theravada's Pali Canon and the four Chinese Agamas - which correspond to the four main Nikayas in Pali and belong to some early schools that no longer exist - this book shows that mindfulness is not only limited to the role as a method of insight (vipassana) meditation, as presented by many Theravada advocates, but it also has a key role in serenity (samatha) meditation. It elucidates how mindfulness functions in the path to liberation from a psychological perspective, that is, how it helps to achieve an optimal cognitive capability and emotional state, and thereby enables one to attain the ultimate religious goal. Furthermore, the author argues that the well-known formula of ekaayano maggo, which is often interpreted as ‘the only way’, implies that the four satipa.t.thaanas (establishments of mindfulness) constitute a comprehensive path to liberation, and refer to the same as kaayagataa sati, which has long been understood as ‘mindfulness of the body’ by the tradition. The analysis shows that kaayagataa sati and the four satipa.t.thaanas are two different ways of formulating the teaching on mindfulness according to different schemes of classification of phenomena.
Author: Michael Viggo Fausböll
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849622479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices The Sutta Nipata is a Buddhist scripture, a sutta collection in the Khuddaka Nikaya, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. All its suttas consist largely of verse, though some also contain some prose. It is divided into five sections: Uraga Vagga Cula Vagga Maha Vagga Atthaka Vagga Parayana Vagga Some scholars consider this the oldest of all Buddhist scriptures. Others agree that it contains much very early material.
Author: P. B. Tan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721628865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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This Abhidhamma book, Volume II of the Yamaka treatise examines the foundational principles of Buddhism, with emphasis on the focal issues of terms definitions, origination and cessation moments of thought, birth-moment and death-moment, and phenomenal characteristics of different individuals, are requisite material information for insight meditation and the development of wisdom. The analysis covers the topics of material and mental formations, latent states of proclivities, pure states of consciousness, dhamma, and the twenty-two controlling faculties. More concrete answers, and illustration with examples and charts are provided for every chapter, to make the study of this difficult book a delightful and rewarding experience. Four appendices of relevant information are also included as references to the contents and as useful supplements for readers.
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN: 9552403693
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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This book contains fifteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Wheel Publication No. 216: The Buddhist Attitude to Other Religions by K. N. Jayatilleke; 217-220: An Analysis of the Pali Canon by Russell Webb; 221-224: Kamma and Its Fruit by Leonard A. Bullen, Nina van Gorkom,Bhikkhu Nanajivako, Nyanaponika Thera,Francis Story; 225: Buddhism and Sex by M. O'C. Walshe; 226-230: A Technique of Living by Leonard A. Bullen;
Author: Carl Olson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810857715
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Historical Dictionary of Buddhism covers and clarifies Buddhist concepts, significant figures, movements, schools, places, activities, and periods. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries.
